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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFIATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Application Number: 2002-0416 Property Location: 1636 Lincolnway West, South Bend Property Owner: Ethel Anderson Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark Rating: S-12 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT This 5 -story Gothic Revival brewery, built in 1905 by the South Bend Brewing Association is very familiar to this Commission, and is more fully described in the attached description. RECOMMENDATION (1) The South Bend Police Department has recently published recommendations for building safety, which include replacing all wood doors with steel doors. The HPC believes that this suggestion may be valid, where it applies to a modern hollow service door. However, where the door in question is an original or historically correct solid wood door, fitted with a good deadbolt that reaches beyond the doorframe into the wall, such a door is actually as safe or safer than almost any replacement door, including steel replacement doors. In general, Staff would not recommend replacing original solid wood doors. However, the doors Ms. Anderson proposes to replace are on the sides, and not the front face of the building, and do appear to be decayed. Some may actually have been already replaced. Staff recommends approval, provided that surrounding elements of the doorways, including opening size and shape and brickwork, are preserved. (2) Ms. Anderson's proposed tenants have not given her exact specifications as to the awning they want. She would like to accommodate them, as the building could use the income. There are some historic buildings of similar age that have, or have had, awnings. Staff recommends that the commission specify what type and style of awning would be appropriate, and approve such an awning. Staff further recommends the following conditions: (a) No "bubble" or half -round shaped awning; (b) Either a Dutch -slope shape or a straight shape (such as at the LaSalle Grille) may be used; (c) Separate awnings over doors and windows; (d) Consistent awnings over all the openings in the front face of the. building; (e) All signs painted on the front of the building (i.e., tattoo parlor) be removed with a method non -damaging to the brick. (f) The Standards & Maintenance Committee must approve the attachment method for the proposed awnings, to be sure they do not damage the brick.