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SOUTH BEND COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION MONROE PRIMARY CENTER Tuc/Cpoltifing / Sealltlg ATTACHMENT to APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS The proposed work being requested for approval is for the completion of the masonry restoration on the exterior of Monroe Primary Center that was originally started in 1999. As previously performed in 1999, the work includes the complete cleaning of all exterior masonry, complete tuckpointing of all masonry, the repair and replacement of any damaged brick and/or limestone, the recoating of the limestone previously coated throughout the exterior of the building, and the use of a clear masonry sealer over the existing brick work. The west, north, and two-thirds of the east elevations of the original 1932 building were completed during the Summer of 1999. It is requested that the same procedures and materials be used to facilitate the completion of this work on the remainder of the elevations of the 1932 original building and all elevations of the 1952 and 1959 additions. For your review, attached is documentation for the specified products that were used in the 1999 restoration work. This documentation describes the procedure used in this repair work for masonry cleaning, tuckpointing, brick sealing, limestone repair, and limestone coating. It is critical to the life of the building exterior to have this work completed this summer due to several large areas of the 1932 building and the 1952 addition experiencing severe water infiltration in areas of masonry and masonry grout that have deteriorated. All materials being used are sensitive to the nature of this facility, including the use of lime -based mortar and cleaning and restoration materials such as Dietrich No. 707 Limestone Cleaner Pre -rinse, Jahns No. M70 Softstone Patching Mortar for Limestone, Jahns No. M90 Patching Mortar for Repair of Concrete. We have visited the site with Joanne Sporeleader, Architectural Historian, and Julie Schutte, Assistant Director, explaining the previous procedures that took place and showing the need for the continued restoration to preserve this building. The goal of this restoration project is to provide a uniformity of the masonry work throughout the entire building in a manner that will restore its watertightness and preserve the masonry and limestone for many years to come.