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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS mate: February 14, 2017 Application Number: 2017-0214A Property Location: 620 West Washington Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Richardsonian Romanesque/l889/Tippecanoe Place/Henry Ives Cobb, Architect Property Owner: Brian and Kristi Matteoni/Norm Matteoni Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark; West Washington Street National Register District; National Historic Landmark designated by the National Park Service (only NHL in St. Joseph County and of only 42 in Indiana) Rating: Outstanding DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: This four-story house with an irregular plan has a 12/12 red tile covered central hip roof with numerous intersecting hips, towers, and gables, and a simple eave line with copper gutters. The exterior walls and foundations are rough stone, with limestone window and door trim. The house has large bay windows on the north fagade, a four-story tower at the northeast corner, projecting turret with conical roof at the southeast corner, a steep gable on the port-cochere at the west end, and six stone chimneys with simple banding and cut stone caps. Most windows are one -over -one wood double -hung; there are also windows with double transoms, as well as a few Gothic windows. Generally, windows are deeply recessed and feature stone lintels and sills. At the west end of the house, colonnettes flank six windows with double transoms on the fourth floor, while first story windows are set in rounded heavy stone arches with colonettes. The front entry porch is enclosed by round stone arches supported by clusters of Romanesque columns. The porte-cochere has intersecting gables and large arched openings. The rear veranda stretches around the south and east, featuring short Romanesque columns with a variety of capitals. Doors are wood. ALTERATIONS: COA 1979-1107 to convert house into a restaurant through exterior changes listed in Appendix I (including #10: enclosing rear garden veranda) was denied. COA 1979-1217 addressed concerns discussed on previous COA to convert house into a restaurant; it was conditionally approved pending treatment of the porte-cochere. COA 1980-0219, upon review for the third time, approved conversion of the house into a restaurant and enclosure of the porte-cochere doorway openings with nonfunctional paneled wood doors. COA 1980-0317 approved construction of a stone sign south of the Washington Street entrance. COA 1980-0903 approved construction of a wooden fence to enclose area south of building to install a freezer. COA 1982-0524 approved repair of roof. COA 1988-0721 approved in-kind replacement of front steps and repair of north garden wall. Previously approved COA 1980-0219 enclosed rear veranda with 6- and 3- light casement and fixed wood windows have been replaced with new vinyl windows as proposed in this application without COA approval, in violation of Ordinance Section 21-10(0(10). APPLICATION ITEMS: "Replace windows with in kind -wood against the columns and top and bottom of the granite, as well as in-between supports. Encase enclosed energy efficient vinyl framed window with wood molding completely covering the edges and center piece of the .windows with no exposed vinyl. Idea is to mirror the look of the upstairs windows of the house. The upstairs windows are window over window, while the non -historic windows on the sun porch were made to look like 6 pane window panels. In reality, they were a sheet of glass with strips of wood attached to give the appearance. (one of the photos shows the inconsistency in the appearance). The look will reflect the overall