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• t . CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT APPLICATION -- 1996-0705 PROPERTY..-- 519 Edgewater Drive South Bend, IN OWNER -= Bill & Laurel Cochrane DESIGNATION -- LHD-EP RATING`- C/9 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT. There is very little historical research on file in the HPC office -on this property. Whitcomb & Keller.apparently built -this house in 1919. A quick, survey of available city,directories found no occupants at the house until 1926 whena salesman"named Lee F. Tannehill and'his wife Lillian are found -"listed at this..address. The garage at the rear first appears in the Assessor's records in 1949. The house is basically a two story frame dwelling in -the Foursquare style•with an unusual hipped roof which features small pediment shaped -vents near the peak facing the front and rear and forming'a short ridge from front to back'. A flat roofed one story porch and smaller entry vestibule cross the front. There'is a small flat roofed vestibule at the rear. From.assessor's data it'appears that all these plan -features are original. However, details of original construction are generally obscured by aluminum siding which covers most trim. Windows are six -over -one double hung type. PROPOSED CHANGE The Owners propose to remove the existing storm door at the rear vestibule and . side over this area. They also propose to replace the fixed glazing -at the rear wall of this vestibule with a new and larger window designed to match ,other windows in the house in size and appearance. They further propose to replace the existing double hung window pair at the Kitchen sink with,a new wood window designed tomatch the original. STANDARDS The Standards for the Edgewater Place District state: II.B.1 - Required - Existing or original windows and doors, including sash, lintels; sills, shutters, decorative glass, pediments,. hoods, and hardware shall.be'.retained or when deteriorated beyond repair, replaced with duplicates of the existing or original. II.B.3 - Prohibited - Existing or"original windows, doors, and hardware shall. not,be discarded.when they can be restores and reused in place. New window and, door openings which would alter the scale and proportion of the building may not be introduced..... RECO:'^1ENDATION , The proposed alterations -are all in keeping with the character and scale of the house. The storm door location proposed for closure is presently ambiguous with the absence,of its'door behind and is discreetly to the rear of the building with negligible public visibility: The fixed glazing at this vestibule is likewise discreetly located 'and its replacement and -enlargement will make this window more consistent with other portions of the building.'The Kitchen windows were found to be Staff recommends approval of the application.. DBD 7/10/96