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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Date: June 4, 2008 <br />Application Number: 2008-0523 <br />Property Location: 1031 E. Jefferson <br />Property Owner: Don Dietz <br />Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark <br />Rating: Outstanding <br />STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT: . This property was part of the tract of <br />land owned by John Mohler Studebaker since the 1880s. In 1899 he commissioned architects Dirharn and <br />Schneider to design this thirteen room (originally it had nine rooms) Queen Anne Style house and then <br />sold it to his nephew, George Mohler Witwer on 1899. George Witwer was married to Mary E. Violette <br />of Elkhart in 1895. He served as a private secretary to his uncle and as a consultant to the Studebaker <br />family after his uncle's death. This Studebaker-Witwer House was reclassified as a Free Classic in the <br />2005 City of South Bend Survey. <br />APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace wooden stockade fence with new design (Exhibit A), 6 foot tall fence. In <br />kind materials. Repair of clapboards in-kind on carriage house. <br />LOCAL LANDMARK STANDARDS GROUP B <br />Building Site and Landscaping: Required: Major landscaping items, trees, fencing, walkways; <br />private yard lights signs (house number) and benches which reflect the property's history and <br />development shall be retained... Recommended: New site work should be based upon actual knowledge <br />of the past appearance of the property found in photographs, drawings and newspapers.... <br />RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the replacement of the stockade fence with the new <br />design. The new design is more sympathetic to the architectural style of the house and will be in the same <br />location (Exhibit B). Staff recommends the approval of the in-kind_ repair of the clapboards on the carriage <br />house as well. <br />