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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS STAFF REPORT APPLICATION — 1999-0507-3 PROPERTY — 1342 East Wayne Street North OWNER Timothy S. Liddell (Architect: William R. Laurie of the Architecture Design Group) DESIGNATION — LHD-EWS RATING — Contributing C/10 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - HISTORIC CONTEXT, This Colonial Revival style house was built in 1939 for Elden R & Mary Bowden. Mr. Bowden was an assistant purchasing agent for Studebaker Corporation. In 1944, William & Vi- ola Anderson purchased the home. He was an accountant for General Liquors, Inc.. They owned the home and property until 1947 when Mrs. Anderson sold it to Albert L. & Virginia Flack, Jr. Mr. Flack, Jr. was born in South Bend in 1914 and married Virginia Michael in 1935; she died in 1964. He then married Virginia Harmon Smith in 1965. Mr. Flack worked with his father and brother in the wholesale tobacco business for some 40 -years. He eventually became the vice-president of the Flack Cigar Company. He and his first wife resided at this home until 1957 when it was sold to John Henry & Ann Lichtenfels. Mr. Lichtenfels was born in Chicago in 1919 and married Ann Haugh in 1943. They had five children. Mr. Lichtenfels was the South Bend representative for Bradnes Smith & Company of Chicago. They owned the house until 1975 when it was sold to John & Dorris Gyorgyi. Mr. Gyorgyi was a district manager for Dodge Mfg. He and his family lived in the house until 1983 when it was sold to Robert L. & Jane Miller Jr., a judge in the St. Joseph County Superior Court system. They sold the house in 1987 to Timothy S. Liddell. PROPOSED CHANGE Applicant is proposing to add a new addition to the rear of the home measuring fourteen feet by twenty and one-half feet. Also enclose and gable roof end of the existing screened porch, C) demolish the existing garage and associated driveway, then construct both items new. The drive will be relocated to the opposite side of the lot where it is now situated and require a new curb - cut and the garage will be in the same general location, but have a different footprint as the exist- ing. Also included in this application is a change in the pitch of the roof at the rear of the house projection which will match the mail roof. Also applicant wishes to add a side yard fence, the style which is still undetermined. (Additional data: this applicant is also scheduled on the agenda of the Board of Zoning Appeals, item 5; for May 20, 1999 at 3:30 PM in the County/City Council Chambers. See at- tached agenda.)