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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 06/09/04 Application Number: 2003-0609 Property Location: 1335 East Wayne Street North, South Bend, IN Property Owner: Tom & Peggy Jones Landmark or District Designation: East Wayne Street Local Historic District Rating: Contributing/ 9 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT This 1928 Colonial Revival home was designed by H.R. Stapp for the real estate firm Whitcomb & Keller's Sunnymede development. The Jones' red brick residence was built on an ample, wedge-shaped lot and a half in this planned neighborhood. The property now contains many lovely mature trees desired by the developers for this pastoral development. In the early decades of the 20t' century, architects and developers nostalgically returned to many early American home types and styles (Colonial especially) in the attempt to obtain a more comfortable American lifestyle for the residents. The Jones' residence is connected to this revival trend as Stapp pulled many design elements from the Georgian Colonial style. These include a brick exterior common among Southern Georgian colonials, a symmetrical fagade with a porch -less entryway framed by pilasters and a broken pediment with a decorative urn motif (a rare Georgian design) and dentil work, flat -arches and cut stone keystones over all the house's windows and pedimented second story windows (dormer -like) which cut through the plain entablature and roofline. Two types of shutters can also be found on the exterior of the residence: slated and a larger paneled type. The original owner, David A. Bickel, was a physician who specialized in obstetrics. His wife, Mary, raised four children in this house and lived in it until 1973. APPLICATION ITEMS: 1 Letter including "Description of Proposed Work" ** Work will also include the demolition a portion of the current cement patio and the removal of the timber landscape boxes. 1 Mortgage Survey 6 Sheets of Photographs (1 on each sheet) 1 Oversized Sheet of Sketched Blueprints (Site Plan, Floor Plan, North and West Elevations) RECOMMENDATION The proposed plan calls for the removal of all the rear first story windows, the awning over the back door, the black metal back door, the metal railing near the back door, timber landscaping boxes, and a portion of the existing concrete patio to pour foundations for the additions. The architect, Bill Lamie, also requests approval of the addition of French doors leading out of the dining room into a proposed screened -in porch, an entry portico with an expanded rear entry hallway, and a bay window to replace the rear kitchen window. The screened -in porch, entry portico and addition, and bay will all have shed roofs. Some of the brick exterior will be removed to make way for the new bay window, French door and entryway hallway. The flat arches and keystones will be covered or removed to make way for the new rooflines and openings.