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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 31 October 2014 Application Number: 2014=1031 Property Location: 609 Riverside Drive Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Foursquare/1912 Property Owner: IQ Properties Landmark or District Designation: River Bend Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: This is a 2 storey house with a square plan set upon a rusticated block foundation. The walls are sided with asphalt shingles. There is a flare at the belt course. The full width front porch has a concrete foundation and flat roof supported with round posts. The windows in the house are 1/1 double hung wood with some louvered on the north side at rear. The hipped roof is covered with asphalt shingles. There are three hipped dormers. ALTERATIONS: There is artificial siding installed and aluminum storm doors. Some of the windows are not original. APPLICATION ITEMS: Remove exterior siding exposing original siding. Install new double 4" vinyl siding. Existing soffits and fascia keep intact. Replace all exterior window trim with new vinyl trim. Repair and replace gutters and downspouts as needed. Replace all existing exterior wooden double hung windows with new energy efficient vinyl replacement double hung windows. Replace existing louvered windows in rear of house with vinyl double hung windows. Install 12'x12' wolmanized lumber promenade deck off the rear entry of house with stairs down to back yard.(See attached rendering for dimensions and materials)Replace front door with square glass panel door. Replace basement windows with sliding windows. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: This is a property that has been on HPCs watch list since as early as 2001 and has code violations with South Bend Code Enforcement since 19 August 2013. New owner IQ Properties intends to "rehabilitate home to current like new standards of homes on historic Riverside Drive while maximizing efficiencies in cost, labor, time and energies. Plan is to use all new material and/or restoring existing salvageable materials. We would like to complete this work ASAP in order to minimize neighborhood disruption." Inspection Report provided by Steve Szaday,'Preservation Specialist: "On October 31, 2014 I met with Derek the project manager for 609 Riverside Drive at the property to discuss his Certificate of Appropriateness Application. I walked around the house and took pictures of both the windows and the current siding situation. Windows: After an exterior inspection only, I feel confident that 75% of the windows should be replaced.. The original wood storm windows that are present have the glass completely falling out as a result of missing glazing and or weep holes trapping moisture inside. I noticed that several of the windows have been nailed shut. There is rot along the lower rails in almost all the second floor windows visible from the ground. The windows in the best condition would be the three -bay windows in the front of the house under the porch's overhang. There are a number of windows that are stationary that although older, may not be original to the structure. When the siding was installed, no drip edge or transition trim work was installed above the windows. Water was able to merely roll over the siding and into the windows from there. I counted at least 30 windows at the house not including the missing or boarded basement windows of which there are (7) seven missing or boarded.