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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPIATENESS Application Number: Property Location: 1999-0507-3,13 1342 E. Wayne North Property Owner: Timothy Liddell Landmark or District Designation: EW-LHD Rating: C/10 Key Number: Survey Number: STATEMENT OF SIGNIFCANCE/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. By 1944, William Anderson, an accountant for General Liquors, Inc, owned the house. He and his wife, Viola, resided in this house 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. Mr. Flack worked with his father and brother in the wholesale tobacco business for 40 -years, eventually becoming the vice- president of the Flack Cigar Company. Mr. Flack and his wife resided at this address 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, together they had five children. Mr. Lichtenfels was the South Bend Representative for Bradnes Smith & Company of Chicago. The couple owned the house until 1975 when it was sold to John & Dorris Gyorgyi. Mr. Gyorgyi was a district manager for Dodge Manufacturing. He and his family lived in the house until 1983 when it was sold to Robert L. Miller Jr., a judge in the St. Joseph County Superior Court system. He sold the house in 1987 to the current owner, Timothy Liddell. PROPOSED CHANGE Applicant is proposing to construct a new front entrance, remove black plastic shutters and replace with wood shutters, demolish existing front stoop and construct a new stoop to match the existing rear stoop.