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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 7 August 2012 Application Number: 2012 -0730 Property Location: 226 Hammond Architectural Style/Date /Architect or Builder: Cross Gable Square /1903 Property Owner: Mary Graham Landmark or District Designation: River Bend Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: This is a 1 %2 storey square building with a concrete foundation. The walls are covered with aluminum siding. The Roof is a cross gable with returns and is covered with asphalt shingles. There is a full length front porch with a brick foundation, half walls and tapered piers and brick wing walls. The porch roof is hipped and covered with asphalt shingles. The windows are 1/1 double hung without storms. The attached carport was enclosed and is now failing. There is a one storey addition with a shed roof in the rear. All of the doors appear to be replacements. ALTERATIONS: Broken windows were replaced with COA 2002 -0311. The rear one storey addition with aluminum siding is not original to the house. The attached car port was not original to the 1903 structure; it was enclosed and the aluminum garage door was added. The aluminum siding is not original. All of the doors are replacements. The detached garage in the rear collapsed in the winter of 1993 APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace front door with steel door. Take down side garage (car port), move electric meter from garage to house, 3 feet. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeowner wishes to replace the deteriorated wood front door with a new steel-door in a new frame to prevent further break -ins. Also proposed is to remove the failing flat roofed enclosed car port that is falling down and to replace any siding on the house with siding from the enclosure or with siding to match. All debris will be hauled away for disposal. The homeowner also will be removing the electric meter from its current location at the "garage" to the house. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES; V.GENERAL A. Buildings in the district should not be demolished except where a building poses a threat to the public safety, and demolition is the only alternative. Documentation of interior and exterior features of the original buildings, especially homes rated as historically significant, is encouraged. Measured drawings and photographs may be submitted to the Historic Preservation Commission for safekeeping and future reference. C. WINDOWS AND DOORS Window and door frames are in most cases wood. Brick structures have stone sills and brick lintels. In some cases where synthetic siding has been applied, window trim has been covered. Many structures in the district have aluminum storm windows. Some houses retain wood framed 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 units and trim resembling the original. Recommended Wood frame storm windows and doors, painted to match the original, should be used but should not damage existing frames. If new sash and doors are used, the existing or original materials, design, and hardware should be used. When metal storm doors are used, they should be painted, anodized or coated to.match the existing. When awnings are used they should be of canvas material. Prohibited Original doors, windows, and hardware shall not be discarded when they can be restored and re -used in place. New window and door openings which would alt6r the scale and proportion of the building should not be introduced.