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4 �•c STAFF REPORT-- - - - - -- - -- CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFIATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: 2001 -0410 Property Location: 1414 Leer Street Property Owner: Mr. Leif Bouskill Landmark or District Designation: Lincoln Way East Local Historic District Rating: first S -11, then C -9, then NC STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE /HISTORIC CONTEXT This is the old Post Grocery Company, built in 1905 in 20` Century Functional Style. It at one time was rated S -1 i, because of its significance as an example of a turn -of -the last century grocery and dry goods establishment. Since then, it has been rated lower, due to its deteriorating condition and the alterations made to it. The building is two stories, rectangular with an angled face. The foundation, the back first story wall, and the front wall under the display window, are molded concrete block. The remaining walls are aluminum or vinyl siding over cedar shake or clapboard. The flat parapet wall had a molded wooden cornice, and there is molded trim over the doors and between the first and second stories in the front that echo the shape of the top cornice. There is' a concrete front stoop, and three recessed multi -pane wood front doors with blind transoms over their tops. Windows are primarily one over one double hung sash windows. There is evidence that seven first story windows along the back have been blocked up with newer concrete block. Various windows upstairs have possibly been added, removed, enlarged, or reduced. RECOMMENDATION The owner, under threat from the City Code Enforcement Department, seeks to replace the siding on this building, and to install two additional windows, as the present number of windows in two of the nine apartments in this building are legally inadequate for the number of present occupants. (1) Since the siding is presently artificial, in kind replacement is appropriate, and should be approved. (2) Restoration of a window in any location where a window used to be is also appropriate, and should be approved. It is probable that the removal of the old siding may reveal such. The installation of new, hap- hazard windows in a previously solid wall would further compromise the integrity of a building that cannot afford further compromise, and that should not be approved. (3) Inspection photographs taken for the purpose of this Report show damage to the mortar joints between the blocks in the back wall, and at the corner of the building. These areas should be repaired. The missing or broken door at the back of the building should be repaired. (4) It appears that at least two of the three front entrance doors have recently been replaced, one with a colonial revival style door having a nine -pane window on the top half, and one with a Colonial Revival "Cross and Bible" door. While either style could be appropriate, all three doors in the front of the building should be the same.