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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 2 October 2012 Application Number: 201.2-1001A Property .Location: 553 River Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: American Foursquare /1922/Wllitcontb&Keller Property Owner: Liz and Steven Kurtz 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 oil 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 tile. porch roof line and are out either side of the front porch. The porch has wooden railings and balustrades. AL'T'ERATIONS: 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. The aluminum stonn windows were added in 2010. APPLICATIOI`ti' ITEMS: Remove vertical support, replace new solid header, install one 16'x7' door to replace the 2.detenorated sling doors. Install new wood trim work around doorway as necessary. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeowners wish to replace the deteriorating sliding doors out the 1932 garage located at the rear of the backyard along the alley. They propose to replace the doors with one Ideal Door M5LT Long Panel Design metal garage door. Tile owners will have installed a new header to accommodate the wider opening and replace any necessary trim work in-kind. The two current garage doors have a center support and open directly onto a narrow alley in front of a telephone pole and a light pole making it difficult for one car to use the garage as it exists. The wider single opening will. alleviate this problem and allow for both.cars to be in the garage. STANDARDS AND GUIDEI.JINES: Edgewater Place; B. BUILDING Slft, LANDSCAPING, AND ACCESSORIES Individual properties in the district are characterized by a house located in the center of a flat lawn, often divided by a walk leading to the front entrance. Many properties have a straight driveway along one edge of the lot leading to a garage at the rear of the house. This driveway oflen has a sidewalk along one side leading to the front entrance either in the center or at the side of the house. Driveway and sidewalk materials include asphalt or concrete. All of the properties have trees; many have trimmed shrubbery and hedges. All of the houses conform to a uniform setback line within each block. Required Existing plants, trees, fencing, walkways, streetlights, signs, and benches which reflect the properties' history and development shall be retained. Recommended New site work should be based upon actual knowledge of the past appearance of the property found in photographs, drawings and newspapers. New site work should be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Plant materials and trees .in close proximity to the buildings that are causing deterioration to the building's historic fabric should be removed.