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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 12 October 2017 Application Number: 2017-0912 Property Location: 60500 Bremen Highway. Mishawaka Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Queen Anne Free Classic ! 1901 ! Williard Crofoot Farm Property Oivner. Randall cf: Shiela Meert Landmark or District Designation: Local l.andmark St. Joseph County Ordinance 4154A-1973 Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: This two and a half story Free Classic Queen Anne is square with an addition at the rear. The foundation is random coursed stone. Synthetic siding was added in 1998. The roof is pyramidal with gables. A front/side veranda is open with brick walls and piers, as well as round columns and a ►vide lintel. Most xvindows are 1 over 1 with projecting cornices. Three oval windows (two on north face on each floor, one on the -west face on the second floor) as well as a round -arched window to the left of the main door, on the porch. The main door has a wide surround with projecting cornice and a fall upper light. Other notable details include fish -scale and straight -cut shingles in the gable ends of the cross gables which also have wide returns at the cave line. There are eight small light windows in the gable ends. Also on the site is a small well house with narrow modern siding and jerkin head roof, a modern metal sided garage/barn, and a c. 1890 English bank barn with a random stone foundation (supplemented with a modern concrete block). The barn has vertical matched board siding. ALTERATIONS: COA 1997-0822 re -roofed garage and barn. COA 1998-0217 "install[ed] vinyl siding, however, significant architectural details must be retained including decorative dentil, trim, oval window with modified keystone elements, gables with shingies and trim and the retain the flared skirting detail between first and second floors." Additional landscaping improvements including a water feature were added to the property sometime after 1998. COA 2014-0905B called for the "Tear off and reroof Northeast lower section with Berkshire art 10c shingles (same as on now)" APPLICATION ITEMS- Add a wood fence for safety. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Retroactive permit for the installation of %wood picket fence enclosing immediate north and east yard surrounding house. Fence connects to adjacent metal -wire farm fencing encompassing tree farm to the north of the main farmhouse. Additionally, extensive landscaping improvements have been added to the property, indicating the presence of landscaping company and tree farm. y Per phone conversation with applicant on October 12"' — the primary reason for the construction of the fence is to ensure the safety of the children living at the house. Prior to the construction of the fence, a dog was struck and killed on the property. PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT: N!A STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: Group -B- Standards and Guidelines G. Building Site and landscaping 1. Required Alajor landscaping items, trees, fencing. walkways. private yard lights. signs (house numbers) and benches which reflect the property's history and development shall be retained. Dominant land contours shall be retained. Structures such as: gazebos, patio decks. fixed barbecue pits, swimming pools. tennis courts. green houses. new walls, fountains, fixed garden furniture. trellises. and other similar structures shall be compatible to the historic character orthe site and neighborhood and inconspicuous when %iewed from a public way. 2. Recommended New site work should be based upon actual knovsledge of the past appearance of the property found in photographs, drawings, and newspapers. Plant materials and trees in close proximity to the building that are causing deterioration to the buildings historic fabric should be removed. However. trees and plant materials that must be 1`0101 -ed should be immediately replaced by suitable flora. Front yard areas should not be fenced except in cases where historic documentation would Indicate such fencing appropriate. Fencing should be in character with the buildings style, materials, and scale. 3. Prohibited