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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: June 1, 2017 Application Number: 2017-0601 Property Location: 620 West Washington Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Richardsonian Romanesque/l 889/Tippecanoe Place/Henry Ives Cobb, Architect Property Owner: Brian and Kristi Matteoni/Norm Matteoni Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark, ordinance #6569-1979; 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, enclosure of the porte-cochere doorway openings with nonfunctional paneled wood doors, and enclosure of rear veranda with 6- and 3- light casement and fixed wood windows. 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. Six- and three -light casement and fixed windows enclosing rear veranda have been replaced with new vinyl windows without COA approval, in violation of Ordinance Section 21-100(10). COA 2017-0214A to replace wood windows in rear veranda with vinyl windows encased with wood molding to cover all exposed vinyl was denied. APPLICATION ITEMS: Removal of a total of 21 windows. Install single glass pane Low E DS Insulated Glass 1: from The Glass Doctors as recommended by HPC. To restore to the previous 1979 installation per pictures attached. Exterior trim will be installed and painted to historically match. Existing interior trim and concrete pillars will be resealed and painted using proper materials and procedures by K&J Building Contractors. Due to our seasonal time as well as the cost incurred we are requesting to complete the Southeast side this Fall 2017 and the back -South Side next fall 2018. K & J