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Certificate of Appropriateness A lication • <br />pp <br />908 Leland Ave. South Bend, IN 46616 <br />Owner: Joan Downs <br />Address: 849 Forest Ave., South Bend, IN 46616 <br />Cell/Text: 574-383-6346 <br />Email: iomdowns290gmail.com <br />Contractor: Peacock and Co. <br />Detailed plans and exterior elevation drawings are attached to this application. In short, <br />this modest home in the Chapin Park District was broken up into at least 2 units many <br />years ago. I purchased it with the intent of returning it to single-family occupancy and <br />restoring the exterior. <br />In order to make the interior spaces workable for a modern family a I am requesting <br />permission to change a couple of openings in the house's exterior. In addition, I am <br />removing the plastic siding, repairing all the woodwork and trim, replacing the ill - <br />constructed porch and attaching historically appropriate railings. Finally, a small addition <br />will be put on the back of the house at the kitchen door in order to enclose the stairs to the <br />basement that have been exterior to the house for a very long time. <br />All windows will be wood -clad and conform to the proportions of the original windows. All <br />will be double hung except for the horizontal format window adjacent to the basement <br />stairs and the porthole window in the back bedroom on the second floor. <br />FIRST FLOOR: <br />Fagade/West Side: <br />-replace front porch floor with proper type of wooden boards in correct orientation and <br />pitch. <br />-replace existing railing with historically correct railing of lower elevation to match original <br />which left marks in the pillars for attachment. <br />-install matching hand railings along front stairs to porch with rails to match new front <br />porch railings and finish posts with modest finial (per example photograph attached). <br />