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.f <br />STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Date: 6 April 2010 <br />Application Number: 20.10-0406 <br />Property Location: 723 Park Avenue <br />Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Queen Anne/.1889/ <br />Property Owner: Rita and J. Patrick ..Lyden <br />Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark &Chapin Park LHD/NR <br />Rating: Outstanding <br />DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: Hodson's Castle is an elaborate 2 fi storey <br />Queen Anne with an irregular floor plan set on a foundation built from "Notre Dame" <br />yellow brick. The first storey if finished with narrow wood clapboards while the second <br />storey has rounded and diamond shaped shingles. The two storeys are divided by a belt <br />course of vertical siding and elaborately trimmed. The hip roof has gable dormers along <br />with tower and bays with mansard wrapping around the rear corner. There are detailed <br />carvings at roof edges and dormers. There is a corner tower with overhanging chamfered <br />corner supported by two spindle columns. The window openings are simple double hung <br />sashes with pilaster trim and carved corner blocks. The front door way are panel wood <br />double leaf doors with single light and multi -pane over and below with a stained glass <br />transom ' <br />ALTERATIONS: The tower has been shortened. The verandah was been removed and <br />.replaced with two porches leading to the main entrance and the east side entrance. Roof <br />has been replaced. New K -style gutter were installed and the foundation repaired and <br />reinforced (COA#2009-04460) <br />APPLICATION ITEMS: Install a skylight per attached description. <br />DISCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeowner proposed to have <br />SlaTile professionally install a Wasco venting skylight on the rear attic roof of the <br />"Queen Anne" section of the home to provide additional lighting and ventilation. Please <br />see attached diagram and copy of product brochure.. <br />STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: <br />B. BuiLDING SITE, LANDSCAPING & ACCESSORIES <br />This section focuses on individual properties and amenities. Building sites tend to be irregularly <br />shaped, of varying topography and with different setbacks with regard to plots. Alleys are <br />generally behind houses. Landscape accessories like fences are unique to each structure. Chapin <br />Place presents a unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have <br />property lines on Chapin Place will be considered on a case-by-case basis. <br />Required <br />Fencing, walkways, outbuildings, private yard lights, signs (i.e. house numbers) and benches <br />{visible from the street} as well as trees located in a yard or tree lawn which reflect the property's <br />history and development shall be retained. A tree located in such areas shall only be removed if <br />the removal is required due to storm damage, disease, threatened damage to a structure or for <br />such other reason acceptable to the historic Preservation Commission. Storm damaged or <br />diseased trees should then be replaced with an approved species at the same or approximate <br />location wherever possible. Fencing visible from the street in front of the structure shall be open <br />