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HISTORIC PRESERVATION COM VHSSION PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT - July 15, 2013 Oh my! So many things going on in the past 30 days. Let us start with the warm and fuzzies. 58 people attended the East Wayne Historic Walking Tour put on by the Studebaker National Museum. This was a great tour and despite the rain, a lot of fun. I appeared on Experience Michiana with Gordy Young on WNIT (PBS) to promote the Restore Michiana Homeowner Series. We held our Restore Michiana Homeowner's Workshop on Masonry this past Wednesday to a full house of 22 attendees. This was a great turn out for a lecture and even ran over 45 minutes due to all the great questions and discussion. We have decided to move the next workshop in August (the windows workshop) to the former Salvation Army building on Carroll St in Taylor's Field. The new owner of the property is looking at developing businesses and a community center at the location. The windows there definitely need work and should provide enough to allow two person teams to properly glaze a window during the allotted time. Speaking of Taylor's Field, I am so very pleased to announce that the church on the corner of S St Joseph and South Sts has been sold! The new owners are currently trying to rectify the smoke damage from a minor winter -time fire and remediate the mold. It is their intention to be able to have services in the church by the end of August! Over the last two weeks this office has been handed over eighty 106 reviews. These included subsidies for mortgages, lead paint, improvements, and of course, demolitions. I have photographed and walked around each one of those houses. In my opinion based upon an external inspection, there are houses that do not require demolition at this time. More information will follow as it becomes available. As we look toward the next month, I will be running the Windows Workshop, a bus tour for Holy Cross Village, the Historic Districts Bus Tour, and a Downtown South Bend Architectural tour for Studebaker National Museum in August as well. While in the search for missing pieces of the Studebaker fountain, Steve Nemeth informed me of some statues that were in storage in a garage located south of the North Pumping Station at Leeper Park. Please see attached photograph. Steve Szaday Preservation Specialist