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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF -REPORT APPLICATION' --:1997=0502R PROPERTY -- 1208 Lincolnway East South Bend, IN OWNER -- Hubner Agency DESIGNATION -- LHD-LWE RATING -- Contributing C/10 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HI8TORICGCO3NTEXT Ovtners Elva. and Albert Harris built this Queen ,Anne house built i.n 'the mid -1890s. Mr. Harris began the South Bend Spark Arrestor Company in 1887;. PROPOSED CHANGE Amendment to 1997-0714. Modify west side entry door and canopy to allow . access by wheelchair, add handicapped access ramp on west side and excavate and provide basement entrance with concrete stairs at east side to provide second path of egress from occupied sections of the basement. STANDARDS The Preservation Guidelines for Lincolnway East Local Historic District: b) .... The Guidelines for the Lincolnway East District follow the Rehabilitation Model.... I.B.2. Recommended New site work should be based upon actual knowledge of the past appearance of the property found in photographs, drawings and newspapers. New site work • should also be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. II.C.1 Required Existing or original windows and doors .... shall be retained or when deteriorated beyond repair, replaced with duplicates of the existing or original. II.C.3 Prohibited Existing or original windows, doors ... shall not be discarded when they can be restored and reused in place. New windows or door openings that would alter the scale and proportion of the building may not be introduced. IV.A.l. Required Code requirements shall be complied with in such a manner that the existing character of the building is preserved. IV.A.3. Prohibited Construction of new stairways and elevators that would alter the existing exit facilities or important architectural features and spaces shall be prohibited. RECOMMENDATION This application reflects changes in the previously approved rehabilitation program which have been motivated by requirements of the building code with regard to commercial use. These requirements have already been acted upon in the project development in response to the Building Department. Staff views this application as an object lesson in the reason for hiring professional architectural services for a commercial conversion project. Each of these requirements should have been foreseeable with a full knowledge of • the building program. Likewise each would have had a superior solution available at the outset, although at this time these features of the project