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r CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT APPLICATION -- 1998 =0407 PROPERTY = =,1610 East Wayne South Bend, IN OWNER -- Karen - McGrew DESIGNATION -- LHD -EW RATING -- Contributing C /10 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE /HISTORIC CONTEXT Whitcomb and Keller built this H.R. Stapp designed English Country house in 1929. It remained-.vacant until 1931 when the.designer, H.R.. Stapp and wife, Eva, purchased the property. Stapp was ari.architect; employed by the Whitcomb and- Keller Corporation, -for whom he designed many, of the houses", located in the Sunnymede area. By the mid -1940s Mr. Stapp opened his own - architectural firm,in the City National Bank Building. The Stapp's -lived in the.house until 1943 when it was sold to Jack & Mildred Pace. .Mr. Pace was the president of Pace's Service located at 601 S. Michigan Street: The Pace's lived in the house until their deaths at which the house passed on to Walter.and..,Bernice Pace.* Walter Pace sold the house.to the current owners, Daniel.and,Karen McGrew'in 1974. PROPOSED CHANGE -r Applicant 'proposes to replace the existing metal casement windows with new energy efficient, Pella windows', enclose the existing screen porch, construct a new, ,room above the - screened porch, and construct a new screen porch ".at ; the rear•'of the-house. ' STANDARDS'-' The Preservation•Guidelizies for East Wayne Street Historic District: b)....The Guidelines for the East Wayne'Street- District follow the Rehabilitation Model.... II.C.1. Required 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 units and trim resembling the original. j II.C.2. Recommended For energy efficiency, steel casements may require interior storm windows. If steel casement windows have to be replaced or removed, windows, of similar size and style used. II . C,.3 . - Prohibited `- Original windows; doors, and hardware 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 shall not be introduced.. Inappropriate new window or door features such as metal insulating glass combinations that, require the removal of original windows and doors shall not be "II.D.1. Required Existing or original porches, stoops ... shall be retained or replaced by