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• CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT, APPLICATION -- 1997-1212 PROPERTY -1202 Lincolnway East South Bend, IN OWNER -- Drs. Anne & Carrold Kempf DESIGNATION LHD-LWE RATING Contributing CAO STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT On November 18, 1830 a claim was filed at the U.S. L - and Office if Fort Wayne, Indiana by Christian Holler.' Mr. Holler purchased a total of 47.85 acres, which included the land this house sits on: In 1835.. Mr. Holler sold the land to Samuel & Mary Leer, who with this acquisition increased the size of their farm to 212.38 acres. When Samuel Leer died in 1850 he left behind eight heirs Mr. Leer appointed his two eldest sons, John and Daniel.. as the sole executors of his will. This will ordered that his farm be divided equally - among his seven children and that 1/3 /3 of it go to his wife. The process of dividing the land took over,20 years due to deaths and 'family squabbling. When property rights were finally settled Leer's heirs began selling their shares to their brother, Jacob Leer. Jacob Leer took this land and created his first subdivision in November of 1886, he platted his second subdivision in December of the same year. Jacob Leer continued to subdivide his fathers farm except for the land south of the railroad which he kept for agricultural use. When Mr. Leer died in 1892 he left an estate valued at $2,600.00. in his will he directed that the income from the farm area be paid to his minor child, Kitty May, and that portions of -this land, which included most of present-day Lincolnway East Historic District, be withheld from sales until Kitty May turned 21 years of age at which time she would become the properties owner. The Queen Anne style house located at'1202 Lincolnway East was constructed in 1902 for John Rohrer a real estate developer and speculator. John Rohrer died four years after the house was finished. His wife continued to reside in the house until 1921 when she sold it to William E. & Hattie Cody, The Cody's divided the house into two apartments, 'living in one unit and renting the other to tenants. Mr. -Cody sold the house in 1938 for $4,000.00 to Carrie L. Dickey, who also used the house for rental purposes. She sold the house in 1970 to Alfred H. Farber, who lived here until 1976 when Robert P. Allen purchased the property. In 1982 Smessaert Realty Corp. purchased the house. The current owners are the Kempfs who use it as a,doctors office. PROPOSED CHANGE Applicant proposes to enlarge their existing parking lot by paving the area at the rear which lies along Marine Street. STANDARDS The Preservation Guidelines for Lincolnway East Local Historic District: b) .... The Guidelines for,the Lincolnway East District follow the Rehabilitation Model.... I.A.3. Prohibited Existing relationships of. buildings and their environments shall not be destroyed through widening existing streets, changing paving material, or, by introducing inappropriately located new streets or parking lots incompatible