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South Bend and St. Joseph County HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION 227 WEST JEFFERSON BLVD. SOUTH BEND, IN 46601-1830 Phone: 574-235-9798 Fax: 574-235-9578 e-mail: historic@michiana.org John H. Oxian, President A Certified Local Government Karen R. Hammond -Nash, Director June 7, 2004 Mr. Lincoln Johnson 1154 Lincoln way East South Bend, IN RE: Application 2004-0602 Dear Mr. Johnson: We were delighted to see your application for work to be done on your lovely and di- lapidated carriage house. The carriage houses in the Lincoln Way east local historic district are local treasures, and yours is particularly lovely in design. The first item in your application listed scraping and washing the siding, replacing lost or damaged boards in kind, with boards of the same dimension and shape, priming with oil primer, and painting with latex paint. This sort of maintenance and painting does not require any HPC approval. So go right ahead! The choice of primer and paint type and color is up to your own and your contractor's best judgment, as is the choice between paint and stain, which you might prefer for the upper shingle -style clapboards. I would suggest that you move forward with that as soon as convenient for yourself and your contractor. Also, enclosed with this letter is a Staff Approval for the tear off of the existing roofs (Amanda said she counted at least four, and there might be more), and replacement with the roof style of your choice. As we discussed last summer, when the Standards and Maintenance Committee held a meeting at your house, that the excess weight of the extra roofs on your car- riage house are doing it no good at all, and the faster you remove them, the better for your in- vestment in the property. When the weight is removed, it is likely that the walls will shift a bit, which could, conceivably, break windows, and affect the siding in places. Therefore, even though your application suggests that you plan to roof done AFTER you have the siding fixed, I suggest that you have the roof fixed BEFORE the siding and windows are fixed. Either way, however, you have permission to do both. You also have a free choice as to the type of shingles you may choose to install. The rule is that you must have something at least as historically correct as what is on there now, and the existing roof is not historic. We do, however, recommend that you do one of two things with the shingles: either match the diamond shaped shingles used on the roof of the main house, or else ask your con- tractor, in the process of tearing off the old roof, to determine what the original roofing looked like, and replicate that appearance. COMMISSIONERS Mary Jane Chase _Virginia O'Hair (Secretary) Gerald Ujdak (Vice President) Martha Choitz Lynn A. Patrick Diane Wrobel-Illes Catherine Hostetler (Treasurer) Joann Sporleder (Architectural Historian) John Livingston (Attorney)