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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Date: September 11, 2019 <br />Application Number: 2019-0830 <br />Property Location: 605 Rex Street <br />Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Gabled-front / 1899 or 1905 <br />Property Owner: Joan M. Downs <br />Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Local (Ordinance #9574-05) and <br />National Historic District <br />Rating: Contributing <br />DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/SITE: The house located at 605 Rex is a gable-front one and a half-story <br />structure with original shingles in the gable and clapboard siding and corner boards. There is a full width screen <br />enclosed porch with wood supports set on brick piers and rail with stone caps. There is wood and chain link fence <br />along the side yard on the west and a stockade fence along the east side. <br />ALTERATIONS: Original second floor street-facing window (described in the survey card as “very long paired <br />windows in gable”) was replaced sometime after it was photographed in 1987. COA 2008-0903 allowed for the <br />installation of the wooden and chainlink fence around the rear of the property. COA 2011-0607 allowed for roof, <br />soffit, and gutter repair following ice melt damage. COA 2018-0530A allowed for the replacement of the second <br />story front façade window, as well as the installation of new railings at each of the entrances. RME 2018-0530B <br />allowed for the construction of custom wooden storm windows. <br />APPLICATION ITEMS: “See attached sheets.” <br />Exterior work at 605 Rex Street will include: <br />Back of the house: <br />replacement of the missing skirt board around the back of the house, <br />reframing of the back door and insertion of new historically appropriate door to match the existing kitchen door <br />single pane glass half the door’s height approximately with coffers below), <br />construction of a small deck to make access to the back kitchen door possible (porch to be low and have low <br />historically appropriate railing and 2-3 steps to the garden, with lattice below porch floor, see drawings), <br />construction of a window immediately to the east of the back door to add light to the interior of the kitchen / <br />mudroom, wi(n)dow will measure approximately 1 x 2 feet and be double hung wood clad by Marvin. <br />East side of the House: <br />addition of a simple metal decorative railing to the house at the front kitchen door (see specs), <br />addition of a railing to the front porch on the house side of the door to the screen porch we will add a <br />simple railing (see drawings), <br />reconstruction of the entrance wall to the screen porch to include proper siding but retain the general <br />plan which is currently there with windows above a low wall, <br />replacement of the stylistically inappropriate second floor front window (see photo) new window will be <br />good clad double hung window to match existing windows from Marvin Windows (see specs), <br />construction of a small garden shed along the fence in the back garden which is closest to the northeast <br />corner of the house (see drawings), <br />DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Applicant seeks a Certificate of Appropriateness for <br />improvements on the structure including: <br />1. Modifications to the rear (north) of the house, including: