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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: November 6, 2008 Application Number: 2008-1106 Property Location: 312 East Donmoyer Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Collegiate Gothic/1931/c1950/Freyermuth&Maurer Property Owner: School City of South Bend Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark Rating: Outstanding DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The original 2 %i storey school was built in 1931 on an irregular plan and set on a stone foundation. The walls are red brick with limestone detailing. (Staff is not convinced that the material is limestone and could be concrete.) The front tower has base, buttresses and string course of Bedford stone. The roof has steep parapeted gables, slate clad with limestone like raking cornice and copper gutters and downspouts. The Battlemented square front tower projects and rises an additional storey above the main roof. The main entry in the tower is a 3 -leaf wood panel with glass transoms in an ogee limestone archivolt. There is a 3 part leaded casement unit with transoms and carved ogee crown above the main portal. The building also has a limestone cased bay window with leaded casements and surmounts. Other entries are scattered around the building and set in gabled vestibules with ogee archivolts and transoms. The remaining windows are coursed double casements with transoms set in limestone surrounds. ALTERATIONS: The original entry doors were replaced in 1996. There were additions to the school in 1947 at the southeast corner with eight larger classrooms added on to that in 1952. The flat roof of 1952 addition was replaced in 1995. In 1959 a single storey addition was built to the South of the 1947 addition. Exterior repair and maintenance of brick, masonry and limestone was performed in 1999 and again in 2004. APLICATION ITEMS: An addition to and total renovation of the existing building and site all as shown on the accompanying drawings and described in the Project Manual. The addition exterior will have finish materials and detailing matching the original building construction design. Please see attached letters dated November 6, 2008 and copies of selected pages from Building Renderings. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Construct an 17,500 square foot addition that will abut the south elevation of the 1942 classroom addition and the east elevation of the 1959 addition. This addition will replicate the design elements of the original 1930 school in color and modem materials. Remove all of the steel sash windows in the main and second levels and replace with either Wausau Heritage Series, Traco 590 Sercies, Graham 7600 Series or Moduline Renaissance 32E Series. The replacement windows will replicate mutin pattern and look of original windows. The leaded glass diamond pane windows in the gables and tower will be removed and replaced with replicas featuring the original caming pattern: If an original window caming pattern was removed it will be restored. The original slate roof system will be removed down to the concrete decking and given a new support system for the installation of a synthetic material resembling slate manufactured by either DaVinci, EcoStar or Inspire. This will be installed on all roofs except the flat roofs. Remove original wood doors and replace with aluminum replicas. Restore and repair brick and limestone -like surfaces.; recoat limestone -like surfaces with a natural limestone colored coating. Create a new visitor parking lot in front of tower entrance. The new parking lot will be surfaced with asphalt. Some of the copper downspouts and gutters will be restored and copper flashings replaced. Locations are not clear. Some gutter and downspouts will be replaced by aluminum. Locations are not clear. Replace sidewalks with new. Remove original stairs to