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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 8 February 2010 Application Number: 2010-0202 Property Location: 553 River Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Property Owner: Steven Kurtz American Foursquare /1922/Whitcomb&Keller Landmark or District Designation:. Edgewater Place Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: This home is a two storey American foursquare set on a brick foundation. The walls are the -original clapboard and features narrower clapboard on the second storey above the molded string course. There are corner boards on all sides of the first storey. There is a hipped roof with hip roof dormers covered with asphalt shingles. The 4/4 windows in the dormers appear to be original. The wood windows on the body of the house are original and are 8/1 on the first storey and 6/1 on the second. There is a full length front porch set upon brick with tall, large brick square columns that extend above the porch roof line and are on either side of the front.porch. The porch has wooden railings and balustrades. ALTERATIONS: The original asbestos roofing was removed and replaced with asphalt shingles in 1983. A 6 foot privacy fence between 553 and 549 River at the alley was erected in 1990. The two car frame garage appears to have been constructed after 1932. APPLICATION ITEMS: I would like to put new aluminum, double hung storm windows on all windows on my house to replace the dilapidated originals that remain and those which have been lost. See attached brochure for more information on windows. I investigated new wood storms and refurbishing the old ones and cannot afford the prices. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeowner requests new double hung aluminum storm windows manufactured by National Pride as illustrated in the brochure provided. There are currently only three storm windows on the house and a collection of badly deteriorated storm windows in the garage. Preservation Specialist Wayne Doolittle performed an on -sight investigation and determined that the remaining storm windows in the garage have deteriorated very badly and have been stored in a deteriorating garage that has left them exposed to the elements for years. The home owner will repair the wood storm windows for the non-operable windows on the front porch and the one on the northeast corner of the first floor. He will also attempt to salvage and restore the best ones from the remaining storms in the garage. The homeowner priced restored wood storms with aluminum inserts at $250.00 an opening versus the National Pride cost of $100.00 per opening the all aluminum double hung storm window system.. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: Edgewater Place: C. WINDOWS AND DOORS Window and door frames are, in nearly all cases wood. Brick structures have stone sills and brick lintels; masonry block structures have masonry sills and lintels.. In some cases where aluminum siding has been applied window trim has been covered. About half of the structures in the district have aluminum storm windows, the other half wood storm windows. Required Original windows and doors including sash, lintels, sills, shutters, decorative glass, pediments, hoods, and hardware shall be retained or when deteriorated beyond repair, replaced with duplicates of the existing or.original. Recommended