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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT APPLICATION # -- 1995-05-03-2 PROPERTY -- 325 West North Shore Drive South Bend, IN OWNER -- Francis & Flor�nce Yeandel DESIGNATION -- West Nort�h Shore STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT Max Stryher and Daisy, his wife, purchased this lot in 1925 and were the builders of this Sears "Magnolia" house. Max Stryher was born in South Bend in 1892. In the 1920's, with his cousin Harry Shroff, he organizld the Federated Teacher's Service Corporation which published music and operated a service organization for music teachers. They operated the First National Institute of Violin and a conservatory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The house is a two story Neo -Classical Revival style mail order house offered by Sears, Roebuck Company. The house has been aluminum sided and has lost many of its details, but it retains the classical portico with fluted ionic columns, and dentiled entablature. The front door retains its slender side lights and fan transom. The property includes a newer frame garage/guest house which has been considerably altered. The garage/guest house is a flat roof one story structure clad with 4" shiplap siding. The windows are mostly -9/1 and - 6/1 double hung with aluminum storms. There is a set of multi -pane french doors at the porte-cochere, a single pane and three horizontal paneled wood door at the guesthouse entry door, and a four vertical paneled wood door at the rear. The house is rated Significant 11 in the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Survey, the outbuilding is non-contributing. PROPOSED CHANGE The Owners propose a general exterior rehabilitation of the garage/guest house structure characterized as follows: 1) Install 4' white vinyl siding at all sides including covering of the existing guest house front entry door. The security storm door is to be re -used at the rear. 2) Remove existing front windows of guest house portion of structure and install new french doors similar to those located at porte-cochere of main house. 3) Remove other double hung windows including aluminum storm windows at east and north walls of guest house and replace with new double -hung wood windows with double pane glass. Note, insulated glass will eliminate need for reinstallation of storm windows. Note also, two of these windows (one at east, one at north) have been altered to accommodate window air conditioners which are also to be removed. Double window at north wall to be reduced to single window. Small windows in east wall to be fixed sash. Windows of garage side are to remain. 4) Replace wood entry door at rear with new insulated metal door with raised panel motif and requiring modification of opening size. Remove existing aluminum storm door and re -install security door from front wall. 5) Replace overhead doors front-, and rear with similar new doors. 6) Install central air-conditioning. Unit to be located at rear wall on alley. Existing metal furnace chimney is to be either encased or removed (if heat pump option is selected). *