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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: June 6.2006 Application Number: 2006-0606 Property Location: 817 Leland Property Owner: Victor Butcher Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park LHD/NR Rating: Contributing STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT: This Free Classic/Queen Anne home was built around 1904. Edwin and Mary Smith were the first residents; and Mary continued to live there as a widow using it as a boarding house until 1910. From 1912 to 1930 Phero C. Fergus resided there. It is currently owned by Susan and Victor Butcher. APPLICATION ITEMS: Vinyl side the house with Georgia Pacific panel .40 gauge, fir out openings around openings to maintain proper reveal with 3/a" pine (1 by) /.23 gauge coil stock. They want the vinyl for easy maintenance, as they are getting older. They did not have the resources to finish the project between May 2002- 2004 under their building permit dated 5/22/02. Work to be completed by September 1, 2006. Chapin Park Standards and Guidelines: H Existing Structures A. Building Materials Required: Original exterior building materials shall be retained when possible.... The existing architectural detail around windows, porches, doors and eaves shall be retained or replaced by replicas of the same design when deteriorated beyond repair. Recommended: Whenever possible, the original building materials should be restored. When maintaining or repairing original siding is not feasible, aluminum, vinyl or composite siding may be used. When used over wood surfaces, this siding should be the same size and style as the original wood. Every effort should be made to retain the original trim around windows, doors, cornices, gables, eaves and other architectural features. RECOMMENDATION: Mr. Butcher received a building permit on May 22, 2002 to apply siding to his home. The siding was not installed and the permit has expired. The house is now part of the Chapin Park Local Historic District and at the time of designation, March 14, 2005, the house appeared as it does today, a wood clap -board sided house. Although the house has severely peeling paint, window reconfigurations and removed architectural trim and drip mouldings, the wood is still in good condition and could be painted. If painted properly the paint should last 15 years. Mr. Butcher does not want to prep the house and paint it because it would take too long. He has already invested in some of the materials and has applied vinyl cladding to some windows and corner boards. According to the 1987 Survey card with house had already undergone major alterations and was covered with asbestos siding and had aluminum replacement storm windows and doors. There have been additional, significant changes to the several of the windows on the sides of the house since 1987. The project to re -side the house was started in 2002, prior to the local district designation, but the project was never completed and the permit expired. Staff recommends approval of the vinyl siding with the stipulation that it only cover the clapboards and leaves the shingles in the gables exposed and that the dentil work on the porch remain in tact.