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RE -RATE REPORT FOR 610 NORTH ST. JOSEPH HISTORY This house was built in 1909 by real estate developer, Seth Hammond. The house was rented to the United Brethren Church as a parsonage until 1911 when it was sold to Jacob Ackerman, a dyer for M.W. Manufacturing Company. They sold it in 1917 to their son, Rudolph Ackerman, who was a prominent member of the Democratic Parry and examiner for various local banks. The house left the Ackerman Family in 1955 when it was sold to C. Horvath. A member of the Horvath Family owned the house until 1990 when it was sold to Memorial Hospital who eventually sold it to Quinton and Lara Smith in 2000. ARCHITECTURE This is a two-story American Foursquare style house with a square plan, brick foundation and brick side chimney. The roof is a medium pitch hip with asphalt shingles and a wide eave with very small double brackets at each corner. The walls are covered in wood clapboard and the windows are all 1/1 double hung with molded lintels and small hoods. The front door is multi/paned glass and wood with wood storm while the two side doors and wood with a single glass panel, both with wood storm doors. The house also boasts a full width front porch with flat arch lintels and square wood supports set on brick piers and rail which is capped with concrete. There is also a small box shaped projection off the south elevation that has a flat roof with square wood balustrades and rail to be used as a deck for the second floor. CRITERIA AND EVALUATING All properties are evaluated in terms of historical significance, architectural merit and integrity. Each resource was evaluated by a professional using the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. The three main criteria are: 1) Historic Significance: An association with exploration and settlement, Commercial or Industrial development and or the attachment to the lives of important people. 2) Architectural Merit: Representative of a particular architectural style. 3) Integrity: Determine how much of the original historic fabric remains by looking at any extensive alterations, such as the installation of synthetic siding, removal of architectural features, additions or structural modifications, all of which could lowering the property's rating.