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STAFF REPORT, CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: 2000 -0727 Property Location: 1733 E. Wayne Property Owner: Susan Rabe Landmark or District Designation: LHD -EW Rating: C/9 Key Number: Survey Number: STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT Prominent real estate developers built this Dutch Colonial style house in 1927. They sold the house that same year to Elmer and Agnes Kosdorf. Elmer was born in Chicago in 1895 and married Agnes Thompson in 1924. Mr. Kosdorf was a construction engineer in Chicago until his friend, Vincent Bendix, offered him a job with the Bendix Products Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation. Elmer accepted the position and moved his family to South Bend in 1926. The Kosdorf s resided at 1733 E. Wayne until their deaths, Elmer in 1967 and Agnes in 1968. Executor, First Source Bank & Trust, sold the house after Mrs. Kosdorfs death to Frederick and Sammie Jones. Frederick was the district manager of General Electric. He and his wife resided at this address until 1974 when the house was sold to Mark Bantz D.D.S, and his wife, Patricia. The Bantz's owned the house until 1982 when they sold it to Scott and Ruthann Smith. Mr. Smith worked for Cooper and Lybrand, he resided here until 1995 when the house was sold to the current owner, Susan Rabe. RECOMMENDATION The Preservation Guidelines for the East Wayne Local Historic District follow the Rehabilitation Model. The applicant is requesting to construct a 700 square foot two story addition to the north or rear fagade of the house. The addition will have the same 6/6 double hung windows that are currently in the house as well as the same siding, gutters, foundation and asphalt shingles. It will also include four new skylights, a new dormer with divided light, casement windows and a bank of five such windows on the north fagade. The first story portion of the addition will have three sets of glass paneled French doors and wood trim to match the existing rear sun porch.