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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: 2001-0510 Property Location: 548 River Property Owner: Stephen & Kristen Sherk Landmark or District Designation: LHD-EP Rating: C/10 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT This house was built in 1924 by Charles Barnes, a scout executive for the Boy Scouts of America. He resided here until 1928 when the property was sold to James Moffatt an inspector of Studebaker. James owned the house until 1937 when he sold it to Harry Keleman, a salesman at Robertson's Department Store. Mr. Keleman lived at this address until 1949 when it was purchased by Herman Boarda. The house had numerous owners over the next thirty years, until it was sold in 1980 to Ian and Barbara Carmichael. Ian was an employee of Notre Dame University and Barbara was a substitute teacher for Head Start, they owned the house until 1992 when it was sold to Troy Zars, who sold the property to the current owners, Stephen and Kristen Sherk, in 1996. RECOMMENDATION The Preservation Guidelines for the Edgewater Place Local Historic District follow the Rehabilitation Model. The applicant is requesting to build a wood deck off the back of the house, but, not attached to the house, and to erect a wood, board on board 6' tall privacy fence from the northeast corner of the house along the eastern property line to the existing fence located along the north property line. The deck will be 31' wide and 32' long with the center cut out for landscaping and a bench circling the trunk of the tree located near the driveway. The proposed fence only runs from the back northeast corner of the house to the rear property line, it will serve to give privacy to the back yard and buffer the impact of the neighbors driveway. Staff finds the proposals to be with in the guidelines with no direct affect to the house and little visual impact from the street. Staff recommends approval.