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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT <br />APPLICATION — 1999-0507-1 <br />PROPERTY —522 River Avenue Edgewater Place Local Historic District <br />OWNER , Greg & Lisa Cronkright <br />DESIGNATION — EP-LHD <br />RATING — Contributing C/10 <br />STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - HISTORIC CONTEXT, <br />This Colonial Revival Bungalow located in the Edgewater Place Local Historic District <br />having a legal description of Key Number 18-3039-1527 is rectangular with a brick foundation, <br />with wide clapboard siding, gable roof, full shed dormer and asphalt shingles and open porch <br />with paired square posts. Openings are single leaf, wood with multi -lights, double hung eight <br />over one sashesand white aluminum storms. <br />The home was built in 1922 and was first owned by Clarence E. Folger, who was the <br />president and manager of the Folger Barlick Company, which was a wholesale & retail window <br />shades and awnings store. His wife Edith worked as a secretary for the same company. <br />Mary Misher, a stenographer at Studebaker Brothers bought the home in 1926. In 1928 <br />John Newman and his wife Mary purchased the home. They lived there until John died in 1954. <br />His wife Mary lived there until 1969 when it was listed as vacant. Leon Richardson and his wife <br />Lahna purchased the home in 1977. Richardson sold it to Kenneth Deboer in 1979 who then <br />sold it to the Cronkrights in 1998. <br />PROPOSED CHANGE: <br />The applicant proposes to remove the rear upper story window in its entirety and place <br />clapboard siding (matching ethe xisting) over the opening and then painting to match the rest of <br />the color of the house. The reason for this change is for the remodeling of the bathroom on the <br />second floor. <br />