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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS • Date: January 15 2018 Application Number: 2018-0110 Property Location: 1203 East Wayne Street South Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Tudor Revival / 1927 / "Simon House" / H.R. Stapp, Architect / Whitcomb & Keller, Builder Property Owner: Joseph Wawrykow Landmark or District Designation: East Wayne Street Local Historic District, Ordinance #7796-87 Rating: Outstanding DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The Tudor Revival house is a 2 -story frame on an irregular plan. It has a gable with asphalt shingles with trim mouldings in rake and brick corbelled brackets at the corners under the eaves. The second floor overhangs at the front entry area and is supported by brackets. The exterior fagade is comprised of offset brick and half timbering gable roof and flat roof dormers through -the -cornice; stone sills and timber lintels at first floor front window and rounded porch openings; brick half walls at front entry area and southwest corner. The pent roof is supported by brackets at the side entry. There is a corbelled brick chimney. A two car, two door garage is at the rear in an angled placement to accommodate the tapered lot site. ALTERATIONS: The 1960 Sanborn map indicates that the angled garage at the rear of the property had yet to be added. Scrutinizing the manufacture of some of the existing casement windows indicates their installation sometime during the 1950s. CoA 1994-0516 approved the repointing of the masonry mortar and the replacement of broken bricks. CoA 2009-0518 approved the tear -off and re -roof of the asphalt - shingled roof. APPLICATION ITEMS: "Remove & replace windows." DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Applicant seeks retroactive approval for the removal and replacement of nineteen (19) of the twenty-five (25) windows on the house, as well as to replace the driveway side exterior entry door and storm door nearest to the garage. Reasons for doing so include the inoperable nature of some of the windows, privacy concerns in a bathroom, and security concerns. The application can be divided into three components: 1. Replacement of sixteen (16) windows with Marvin Ultimate Casement metal -clad wood windows with divided light. The street face % West elevation has the following distribution: a four -unit casement on the ground floor, a three -unit casement on the second floor, and a two -unit casement on the second floor. The driveway / South elevation has the following distribution: a single -unit casement and a two -unit casement unit on the ground floor on either side of the side - entry door, and a two -unit casement on the second floor. The South East elevation has a two -unit casement on the ground floor, a two -unit casement on the second floor, and a single unit casement on the second floor abutting the garage roof. On the second floor of the East face of the garage there is a two -unit casement window. The North East elevation has a four -unit casement and two (2) two -unit casements on either side of the fire place on the ground floor, and two (2) two -unit casements and a single -unit casement on the second floor, as well as a single -unit casement on the • ground floor of the garage. The windows being replaced are not original to the house, and have no divisions. 2. Replacement of three (3) windows with glass block. These three windows are obscured from the street and are being blocked -up for security or privacy reasons. Two of the windows on the