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• CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT APPLICATION -- 1997-0811 PROPERTY -- 607 Leland Avenue South Bend, IN OWNER -- David & Vicki Fritz DESIGNATION -- LL RATING -- Significant S/11 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT Meredith and Anna Mills purchased Lot 7 of Millers Subdivision of Bank Lot 113 on September 25, 1890 for $450.00 from Lucius Hubbard. The house was built in the summer of 1891 in the Stick Vernacular. Mr. Mills was a barber at 111 West Washington. Shortly after the house was completed, in September, Mr. & Mrs. Mills sold it to Albert J. Home for $1050.00 and moved out of South Bend. Albert Home immediately upon purchasing the property turned around and sold it to Elizabeth Farrar for $1250.00. Ms. Farrar resided at 607 Leland for five years when she sold the house to Luzetta Bowman on June 27, 1896 for $2600.00. Luzetta Bowman sold the property to James Pope three years later for $2400.00. The house continued to exchange hands on a regular bases. The house was purchased by its current owners on March 3, 1988 and was designated as a Local Landmark on August 9, 1989. The house is presently being offered for sale. 'PROPOSED CHANGE • Applicant proposes house (chimney is hazard and restore to remove a free standing chimney on the north side of the not an original feature of the house), that is a safety cut in soffit to original condition. STANDARDS The Preservation Guidelines for Local Landmarks state: Group B. A. Maintenance The maintenance of any historical structure or site shall in no way involve any direct physical change except for general cleaning and upkeep. D. Demolition Historic Landmarks shall not be demolished. When a Landmark poses a threat to the public Safety, and demolition is the only alternative, documentation... should be made of both the interior and exterior of the Landmark. RECOMMENDATION The chimney subject to this application for demolition is not original to the house which presumably would have been heated by a stove vented through an interior chimney which has since been removed to below the roof. This chimney was added outside of this sidewall at some later date to vent a warm -air furnace located in the basement. It is clearly unstable having been constructed originally with insufficient mass to be freestanding. Neither was it given sufficient structural tie to the existing house to provide such • stability. Due to.the chimney's original lack of structural integrity it is no repairable and should be removed. In the view of Staff, the chimney's historical