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I STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFIATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: 2002-0305 Property Location: East Wayne Street, South Bend Property Owner: Teri & Tom Evons Landmark or District Designation: Local Historic District, East Wayne Street Rating: C_ 9 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT James T. Baker, a secretary for Birdsell Manufacturing Co., and his wife, Erminie T. Baker, purchased this lot from Whitcomb & Keller in 1929, in an arrangement pursuant to which architect H.R. Stapp was employed by Whitcomb & Keller to design and build this house for the Bakers. The house was completed in 1930. Though Mr. Baker was widowed in 1948, he continued to live in this house until 1956, at which time the executor of his will, Elias Strickland, sold it to Dr. James L. Lamb for $28,000. Dr. and Mrs. Lamb lived there 11 years, and, in 1967, sold it to Harry Kevorkian.- the Public Affairs Director for WNDU-TV. Mr. Kevorkian lived there until 1987, when he sold it to Joseph C. Durfee, of Durfee Realty. Mr. Durfee resided there until 1994, when he sold to Michael Lykoudis, who sold it to its present owners three years later. The Evons have lived in this home about five years. The house was originally a rectangle on the second floor, and an L -plan on the first floor, with a sunroom on the North East comer. An aluminum sided shed roof addition, with an off - center Palladian window has been added above the sunroom by some previous owner. The original house is red brick, with a gable roof, gable returns, simple entablature and dentil row, asphalt shingles, 6/1 double hung sashes, flat arch lintels (with keystones over the downstairs front windows) cast concrete sills, wood paneled and louvered shutters with cut-out tree motif. The front door has a gable entry, arch under, entablature and dentil row in the gable rake, supported by square box columns. The back door is much more plain, though it also has a gable entry, without the arch under, and probably without the. entablature or dentil detail. It does, however, have very impressive solid wood brackets supporting the gable. The front door has a brick porch, and the back door appears to have a brick stoop. RECOMMENDATION The applicants seek to build an 181 wide by 301 long addition to the back (North - East) corner of their home. Staff recommends approval. The staff does, however, have three concerns regarding the proposal, as it is presented. Our concerns are: First, the original windowsills are cast concrete, and the new window sills are proposed to be brick. Staff recommends that the new windowsills be cast concrete like the existing ones.