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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: May 6, 2009 Application Number: 2009-0504A Property Location: 947 Riverside Drive Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Dutch Colonial Revival/1907/W.W. Schneider Property Owner: Anne Marie Blakey Landmark or District Designation: Riverside Drive LHD &Chapin Park NR Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The home at 947 Riverside is a two storey structure with an attic area and irregular floor -plan set upon a concrete foundation. The exterior walls are clapboard aluminum siding with aluminum siding in the soffit. It has a cross gambrel roof with gable roof dormers with gable returns and asphalt shingles. There is an enclosed sun -porch on the west end with a flat pergola style roof. The windows are double hung 9 over lwith casement windows in the sun -porch. There is a single leaf wood and glass door flanked by leaded glass sidelights. There is a rounded arched door hood with large, carved brackets over the front entrance. ALTERATIONS: The original wood shingles of the exterior walls have been covered with clapboard style aluminum siding. The east side sun -porch was enclosed in 1936 and. is covered with clapboard style aluminum siding. The aluminum storm door is a replacement. The porch has been changed from a brick structure to a smaller concrete stoop with wrought iron railings. New roof was put on in 2008. APPLICATION ITEMS: Porch renovation, see attached form. Remove all siding from porch, repair fascia and repair and replace ceiling joists with rafter tails and paint. Foundation will be inspected and new concrete support pads installed if needed. If . necessary the knee walls will be rebuilt round the entire porch except for the south end which will be open in the center to allow for a staircase. ' The stair case will be made out of treated lumber with decorative colonial newel posts and handrail. Instead of taking the cedar shakes all the way to the roof system the way it was originally done there will be decorative composite columns installed that will span between the bottom of the roof system to the top of the knee wall. The outside corners of the knee wall will be designed so that they will support the weight of the roof system and distribute that load down to the foundation. The knee wall will be covered with cedar shakes from the ground up to the bottom of the 2x 12 that is resting on top of the knee wall. There will be a V4" decorative cove that will be installed where the cedar shakes terminate into the bottom of the 2 x 12 on the knee wall. The porch will be painted to match the existing house. Also replace existing wood and glass front door with a new front door and replace the stone door with a full view storm door. DISCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT; The homeowner has engaged Donat's Construction to convert the enclosed porch back to an open air porch in a style sympathetic to the Dutch Colonial and with other open air porches in the neighborhood. They used a vintage postcard of the house as a reference for this project. (See Drawings 1