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Saint Casimir's Parish National Register Historic District Character Defining Features North Preserving B. INDIVIDUAL HOUSES & STRUCTURES 1. Open porches • Porches are often located across the front or to one side of the house. • Important character defining porch features include: • Tapered square wood piers upon brick pedestals with wood railings • Brick piers with craftsman influenced details • Wood full or half columns upon brick or cast concrete pedestals • Turned posts • Metal railings with scroll and tracery details (1940s -1950s) • More recent trends have replaced substantial and finely crafted porch piers with too deli- cate mass produced posts and gingerbread (See photo on page 4). • Enclosed porches often darken interior spaces and drastically change the exterior design, architectural style, and appearance of the home. 2. Windows and window openings • Double hung wood sash windows with single or multiple panes of glass. • Some small attic windows: square, circular, multi -light. • Wood storm windows provide a tighter seal with wood windows than the combination of aluminum or vinyl storm windows with wood windows. • Wood window trim and sills. • Brick arched openings, stone sills, brick soldier courses. 3. Exterior faqade material and treatments • Brick masonry (Churches, schools, some commercial buildings, and residences) • Wood clapboard siding with cornice boards and trim (frame residences, often covered with metal, concrete, and synthetic siding materials.) 4. Roofs. Most roofs in the neighborhood are gabled. This type of roof has many configurations. A house with a single peak (gable) that faces the street is called gabled front. A roof z with two intersecting gables can form a cross gable house, an L -plan, or a T -plan. Commercial buildings in the neighborhood have flat roofs. Roofing material is generally asphalt or other composite materials that can be easily re- placed. St. Casimir's Catholic Church has a the roof. r ------------------------------------------------- Wood Repair with Wood Epoxy Products. Wood can be easily repaired with wood consolidant and epoxy filler products. Consolidants and epoxy fill- ers stop the fungal infections that cause wood rot and deterioration from spreading further into the wood. The fillers replace missing material, repair structural stability, and can be shaped, cut, sanded, and painted to I match the existing wood elements. Wood epoxy can be used to repair: * Wood porch elements: railings, columns, posts, piers. e Wood window sashes, muntins, trim, sills. * Clapboard siding and trim - Wood doors. L-------------------------------------- ------------j — — — — — — - Paae 2 -