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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT: The house at 1329 E. Washington was designed by Austin and Shambleau for Joseph Maxwell Stephenson in 1923. The house has been re- classified as Tudor Revival in the 2005 City Survey. Mr. Stephenson lived in the house until his death in 1946. The house was then sold to Eugene O'Brien, Vice -President of the O'Brien Varnish Company. The home was landmarked on October 25, 1982. APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace 11 Wood Casement windows I 18"x48" with 11 new Marvin Alum. Clad casement windows with SDL (divided lite) to sit in existing openings, clad color to match existing (dark brown). See Exhibits A -C and Photographs GROUP B STANDARDS C. Renovations and Additions 2. Material: Additions and improvements involving any new material in the landmark should be of the same material as the original. It should be the same size and texture. An alternative material may be allowed if it duplicates the original. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval. The Marvin windows duplicate the casements with the SDL (Simulated Divided Light with space bar installed between the glass creating the essence of Authentic Divided Lites p.44) The house already has aluminum clad wood windows in a number of locations including a large arched kitchen window so these will match the other windows. So, aluminum clad windows have been allowed in the past. The Group B Standards allow for alternative materials and it uses the term "should" which allows for compromise. See Definitions on page 2. (Exhibit D) Klusminski: Please state your name and address for the record. Neal: Kathleen Neal, 1329 E Washington. M Neal: And Mark Neal of 1329 E Washington. Neal: We've been before you before, I think this is our 3.d or 4'h time in the 2 years that we've owned the house. It's a beautiful old time to which little if anything of value or historical significance has been done in the last 50 years. So we are slowly piece by piece to its former glory. The next project is an upstairs bathroom. It has full south and east facing windows on two walls these have, because of the Tudor revival house with little and in some cases no eave what so ever have been subject to extreme weathering. The sashes are rotten, some of the windows if they do open, the glass comes but part of the sash frame stays behind. The storms are gone. Most of the screens are missing. Most of the hardware is either broken or missing. And in some cases, you can put your finger right through the wood to the exterior. They've been patched with all sorts of different foams and bondos. We have gone to what we think is really the top of the line material to replace these. The most authentic looking that we could find. The divided light is not between the panes but on the exterior so it looks as close to the original leading as is possible. We hoped to preserve as many windows in this house as we can. There are over 100 windows in this house, but these are, they're in really really bad shape. Given that it's a bathroom with no fan on the inside at the moment they're getting abuse from both inside and out. So, we ask for your approval for this replacement. Klusczinski: Are there any questions for the petitioner? Sassano: Other than the sash, are you going to be adding any aluminum to the sill, the muttons, the trim on the outside or the casings? MNeal: No. Sassano: Are you going to be doing any sill repair as a part of this too? Neal: I'm told we may have to at some point, right now the sills are actually covered in copper which has been painted brown. MNeal: It's actually painted brown copper, we'd like to restore it to the copper. Neal. To the extent that we can retain that we would like to. Klusczinski. Any other questions? Chase: It's nice to see such attention given to the house. Klusezinski. So the windows that exist throughout the house, most of the 100 are they wood, are they clad..? Neal. Some are, the ones that are still original are wood, some are double hung, some are casement, a number of them had been replaced prior to our purchasing the house- in particular there are two very large arched windows in the kitchen that have been 11