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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Date: 10-08-03 <br />Application Number: 2003-0918 <br />Property Location: 106 N Main Street, South Bend, IN (108 N Main Street) <br />Property Owner: John Friedline <br />Landmark or District Designation: John Mohler Studebaker Building, Local Landmark & <br />National Register Multi -Resource Area <br />Rating: <br />0/13 <br />STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT <br />In 1910, the J M Studebaker building opened its doors as.South Bend's largest and its most modern office building. <br />John Mohler Studebaker, Vice President and Chairman of the Board, had hired a noted Chicago architect, Solon <br />Spencer Beman, to design the building with the best in fireproof construction —reinforced concrete, granite, terra <br />cotta, marble, and fireproof tile. Beman also designed Pullman, Illinois, a planned industrial city with <br />neighborhoods for workers and management just outside of Chicago, Sunnyside, the home of J M Studebaker, <br />which once stood on the corner of Eddy and Jefferson, the Studebaker Administration building, the South Bend <br />YMCA, and a host of other buildings and residences located in the Midwest. <br />JMS building is an example of the commercial vitality of downtown South Bend during its boom in the early <br />decades of the twentieth century as well as an architectural gem from an era that valued an urban core, visual <br />splendor and'ornate details. This Classical Revival building still stands as a reminder of the civic ideals and <br />interests of one of the city's most powerful and wealthiest families — the Studebakers. <br />It is also an example of the 1960s aesthetic viewpoint in favor of modernizing urban buildings and fagades with <br />simplified lines and cheaper, modern materials. As a victim of South Bend's urban renewal projects, much of the <br />first -story terra cotta stonework and the portico entryway facing Main Street were stripped from the JMS building <br />when the renovations occurred. Aluminum siding, reflective granite, a pebbly composite material, new fixed <br />windows and new storefront entrances now scare the first floor of this building. The original terra cotta <br />header/sills, terra cotta window surrounds and the three plate glass windows that were once visible in the same bay <br />as the Christian Science Reading Room as shown in a drawing of the building may still exist beneath the visible <br />aluminum siding. <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION: <br />The applicant John Friedline, owner, and Skip McCray, the representative of City Awning, propose to install a 14' long, 4' tall, <br />and 5' deep awning above the main entrance to the Christian Science Reading Room at 106 N Main Street, the J. M. <br />Studebaker building. The bottom of the awning will rise 8' 6" above the sidewalk. The awning material will consist of a <br />fabric covering, aluminum frame, and Z brackets. The Z brackets would be attached to the masonry wall of the building with <br />3/8" by 4" Lag bolts. The bolts would pierce the non-contributing aluminum siding covering the fagade as well as what is <br />underneath this siding, possibly the terra cotta header and window surrounds and the plate glass windows. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />The applicant does not know whether or not original terra cotta masonry work or another portion of the original <br />fagade remain beneath the aluminum siding. Studying historic photographs and drawings of the building as well as <br />the building itself, there is a possibility that the aluminum siding covers three plate glass windows set above a terra <br />cotta or stone header and in between terra cotta or stone surrounds. The fastenings of the awning may pierce <br />original parts of the fagade if not the plate glass windows. As the bolted Z brackets could possibly damage <br />hidden portions of the original fagade, staff cannot recommend approval of this application until assurance <br />can be given that the bolts will not penetrate terra cotta or the plate glass windows. If the material behind <br />the aluminum siding is not original, staff then recommends approval of the awning once this is determined. <br />
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