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Property Location: 605 Edgewater Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Dutch Colonial Revival/1920/Whitcomb&Keller Property Owner: Penny and Charles Krug Landmark or District Designation: Edgewater Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: This two storey Dutch Colonial has a regular plan and is set upon a brick foundation. The walls are covered with wide aluminum siding. The Gambrel roof has a full shed dormer across the front both with asphalt shingles. There is a full length wood front porch with wood posts, railings and balustrades. The windows are 6/1 double hung, four front windows have shutters, and two center windows of small 6 panes each in the second storey. The storm door is metal with 12 lites. There is a one stall wood garage with clipped gable and swinging double leaf wood doors and a side wood service door with single glass upper pane. ALTERATIONS: The Aluminum siding covers the original wood shingles. The concrete steps were replaced in August 1985, the storm door in October, 1985 Nine windows were replaced with COA 1990-0613. The porch was restored with COA 2004- 0604B. The roof is a replacement. APPLICATION ITEMS: Frame in for new overhead door 8' wide by 7' tall. Install new service door. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT: The Krugs have just finished having the garage straightened and resting on its foundation. They propose to replace the original deteriorating swing doors with a single metal garage door with windows. This door will have raised panels with the windows at the top. This door will have an automatic door opener feature. Please see Lowes sheet. They also propose to replace the deteriorated service wood door with a window with a steel covered wood door with nine lites. C. WINDOWS AND DOORS Edgewater Place Local Historic District Guidebook 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 Wood frame storm windows and doors, painted to match the existing or original, should be used but should not damage existing frames and should be removable in the future. 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 Existing or 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 alter the scale and proportion of the building should not be introduced. Inappropriate new window and door features such as aluminum insulating glass combinations that require the removal of the original windows and doors shall not be installed. Not Recommended Metal, vinyl, or fiberglass awnings, hoods, and fake shutters that would detract from the existing character or appearance of the building should not be used. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: The garage is not shown on the 1932 Assessor's Card, so it may not be original to the house. Preservation Specialist, Steve Szaday has inspected these doors and said that they are very heavy because they have been repaired/reinforced with 2x4s so many times that it has become difficult for the owners who are in their 70s -80s to operate them. Staff has also not been able to identify a garage door manufacturer that can match the existing doors' configuration. Replicas of the doors would have to be custom built. Staff recommends that if the Commission approves the replacement doors that these front garage doors be stored in the rafters of the garage or basement of the house. It is the Preservation Specialist's opinion that if the doors stored in the garage that the rafters would need to be reinforced. Catherine D. Hostetler, Director Prior to the meeting, the applicant submitted additional documentation (proposing the "ReliaBilt 8 -ft x 7 -ft Traditional Series Garage Door with Windows") as a preferred replacement option. This was reported by Preservation Specialist, Steve Szaday. Mr. Szaday also relayed that the rafters were reinforced during the structural repair work and conveyed that the applicant was amenable to storing the existing doors there, upon removal. On a motion by Lynn Patrick with a second by Mike Voll to approve application as amended to reflect the conditions above. Vote: 5 — 0 Unanimous. COA#2012-01105A Approved as amended. B. NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION