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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: September 7, 2017 Application Number: 2017-0905D Property Location: 803 W Washington, South Bend, IN 46601 Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Romanesque Revival / 1890 Property Owner: Indiana Landmarks Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark Ordinance # 10443-16, West Washington National Register Rating: Outstanding DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The Kizer House is part of the West Washington National Register Historic District. The house is in the Romanesque Revival style with a full three stories and basement. The house is built of coursed gray granite, which contributes to its style including heavy massing and round arches. The mortar is a red color with a raised beaded or grapevine joint. There is a central hip roof with numerous intersecting gables and towers, a massive parapet at the west gable, two round towers on the fagade which terminate into conical roofs. The original dormers feature a conical roof with terra cotta clad sidewalls and terra cotta ridge cap. There are three dormers added c. 1940 with a low slope roof and copper sidewalls The original roof was covered in square edge red clay tile — similar to that on Tippecanoe Place. The current asphalt roof replaced the original tile (first in the 1980's, most recently renovated in 2017) retaining the decorative terra cotta ridge cap. The roof was completed with a decorative copper cornice and gutters. Elements of the copper flashing remain, although the original copper downspouts have been replaced with galvanized metal and the valleys are asphalt. All entry steps are of cut granite with rough stone balustrades. The front porches and porte-cochere have slender stone column supports. The front porch has a shallow hip roof while the porte-cochere has a gable roof with a decorative terra cotta shingled pediment. Windows around the house are 1/1 double hung wood windows throughout with stone sills, plain jambs, and massive lintel stones. The Port Cochere was added at some point following the original construction. A rear porch and kitchen wing has a matching addition assumed to be added at the time the porte-cochere was also added. Three tall chimneys — two in the front and one in the rear — punctuate the roofline. The Carriage House in the rear of the property replaced an earlier wood frame barn c. 1915 to house automobiles with an apartment above and a full basement in poured concrete. Original basement windows have been replaced with new glass block. New wood carriage style doors were installed in 2015 along with a new wood entry door. A new asphalt shingle roof was installed in 2015. The Carriage House is constructed of hollow core clay tile block with a smooth faced red brick. The roof is a steep gabled roof with asphalt shingles and a wide bracketed boxed eave, multi -lite 6/1 double hung wood windows. The Site has been highly altered with a majority of the land being paved with concrete —the exception being an area east of the driveway extending to the sidewalk on Charles Martin Black Boulevard which is grass with scrub trees and decorative red -buds. A small area of grass is also located to the west of the carriage house. A brick wall extends from the west elevation of the carriage house along the north alley to the neighbor's property line. A modern eight foot tall wood fence is constructed along the west property line on the Kizer House. A six inch concrete curb runs the length of the Kizer House property line. There are two driveways to the site entering off West Washington. The original driveway entrance is near the corner of West Washington and Charles Martin Black Boulevard. A shared drive entrance is located at the west property line with the neighbor. ALTERATIONS: COA 2012-0213 approved removal of non-contributing windows installed in carriage house door openings and associate rough sawn siding; installation of finish grade exterior plywood in openings as temporary cover and paint; removal of later enclosure of rear porch and associated doors and windows; removal of scrub brush and associated stumps along west property line; removal of chain-link fence along east property line and install dirt and grass. Extensive site and structure modification occurred prior to the above listed improvements, including (but not limited to): construction of carriage house, addition to the rear of the house and of the porte-cochere, addition of the