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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT lb APPLICATION -- 1998-0226 PROPERTY -- 1321 East Wayne Street So. South Bend, IN OWNER -- Tom & Teri Evons DESIGNATION -- LHD-EWS RATING -- Contributing C/9 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE HISTORIC CONTEXT This house was built in 1930 by either,James B. Baker or by Whitcomb and Keller Corporation for James B. Baker. Mr. Baker purchased the property from the Whitcomb and Keller corporation in December of 1929. Mr. Baker was born in Oregon, where he married Erminnie Tucker. They came to South Bend in 1941 at which time Mr. Baker -became the secretary for Birdselt.Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Baker passed away in 1948; however,,Mr. Baker continued to reside in the house until his death in 1956,.at which ti.me the Baker's executor :gold the house to .James L. Lamb for $28,000.00. Mr. Lamb was a physician, he and his wife, Jane, lived in the house until 1967 when they sold. it to Harry Kevorkian,. the public relations director at WNDU-TV. Mr. Kevorkian resided there until 1987 at which he sold the house to Joseph C. Dunfee of Dunfee Realty. Mr. Dunfee owned the house until 1994 when he sold it to Micheal Lydoudis who sold the house three years later to the present owner, Teri Evons. ' PROPOSED CHANGE Applicant proposes to erect a six foot tall stockade.style- wood privacy fence around the backyard. STANDARDS The Preservation Guidelines for East Wayne Street Historic District state: b) .... The Guidelines for the East Wayne Street District follow the Rehabilitation Model.... I.A.I. Required Major landscaping items, fencing, walkways.... shall be compatible with the character of the neighborhood in si.ze,,scale, material., and color. 1.A.3. Prohibited Signs, streetlights .... fencing walkways, and paving materials which are out of scale or inappropriate to the neighborhood may not be used.