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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR DEMOLITION Date: Aug ist 12, 2017 Application Number: 2017-0807 Property Location: 1905 College Street Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Collegiate Gothic Revival/1936/Austin & Shambleau, arehitectslThomas Hickey, builder Property Oiiner: South Bend Community School Corporation Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark, ordinance #9807.07; National Register Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: Marquette School was begun in 1936 to house 13 classrooms, a gymnasium, library and a 683 -seat auditorium with a separate entrance on Brookfield as a two-story brown English bond brick rectangular building with stone stretchers, a stone string course at the water table and stone first level sill course and stone string courses at the root line. The building is constructed with a blend of poured concrete and a steel frame. The roof is flat and covered with tar and gravel. There are art deco bas-relief stone sculptures above the front and side entrances and triangular pediments above the East and Test Hamilton Street entrances. The College Street entrance has a 40 -pane fixed wood window that illuminates the stairwell. There is all opaque leaded glass window on the west side of the east Hamilton Street Entry. There is a round window with nine panes of clear glass with limestone surrounds in (lie balcony area of the auditorium on the south side wall. Throughout the rest of ttie building there are large double hung wood windows with 416 and 619 saslies set in flat stone lintels. There are stone casing and mullions on all doors and granite entry steps. The original 1936 building is intact and maintains an outstanding level of integrity with most of its original materials and windows. Famed local architects, Austin and Shambleau designed the building with constriction by highly regarded local builder, Thomas Hickey. Forty five percent of the $262,760 cost of Marquette School was funded by the United States Government through New Deal projects of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A small addition was constructed in 1948 and a larger one in 1953 off the northeast corner of the original structure on College Avenue. The 1953 addition to the building is symmetrically arranged; the south end (at the north end of the 1948 addition) and the north end have a wall that forms a corner bay, thougli the top of the wall is equal to tiie adjacent walls. Tile corner bay has wide brick pilasters that step inward toward a center bay. The center bay has a 6/6 window centered in its first level and a 619 window centered in its second level. The windows have stone sills, but are not framed with stone trim. At the center of the 1953 addition is a narrow Avail that forms a projecting bay, though the top of the bay wall is equal to the adjacent walls. A small, narrow I/] window is located in the first level of the bay; it has a wide stone sill. The stone sill course on the 1953 addition is located on the corner bay walls only. Between the corner bay and the projecting bay are two groupings of four 6112 windows; these groups are also framed with stone trim. ALTERATIONS: All windows are boarded. All original paneled doors have been replaced with modern clear glass and metal doors. The only significant alterations are the reduction of the Hamilton, Streets entrances twin towers from six brick courses and seven limestone string courses to two and three respectively and the removal of decorative brick and limestone pediments that crowned the top of each tower. APPLICATION ITEMS: After obtaining the Certificate of Appropriateness, the SBCSC will move forward with finalizing the project bidding docuarients and accept bids to remove the required asbestos containing materials, demolish the entire building, & develop the site for use by the Marquette Primary Montessori Academy students, staff, & community. Included are preliminary site development drawings showing an expanded playground area, open play arealsoccer field, walking paths, raised garden beds, garden storage blk., monuments incorporating materials reptirposed from the old school. (See attached correspondence by Mike Szymanski and Katherine Turk and Exhibits A — E)