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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br /> <br />Date: December 15, 2021 <br />Application Number: 2021-1208 <br />Property Location: 710 Park Avenue <br />Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Second Empire / 1875 <br />/ “Chapin-Anderson House” <br />Property Owner: Randy and Amy Davis <br />Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark (Ordinance <br />#6461-1978), Chapin Park Local Historic District (Ordinance #9574- <br />05), Chapin Park National Register District <br />Rating: Outstanding <br /> <br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE : Eclectic Italianate built for Mary Chapin Anderson between 1875 <br />and 1877. Four generations of the Anderson-DuShane family lived in this house until 1962. Irregularly shaped <br />two-story structure (with third story tower) on a stone foundation. Exterior cladding is wood shiplap clapboard <br />with corner boards; entablature with paired brackets. Asphalt shingled hipped roof with gable dormers, tower <br />has mansard roof with wood shingles. Full width wrap-around front porch with paired doric columns on stone <br />piers, supporting an entablature with dentils; flat roof & balustrade. Windows are 1/1 double hung, most have <br />segmental arch molded entablatures; wood door with single leaded light, sidelights are leaded; stained glass <br />transom. <br /> <br />ALTERATIONS: COA 1986-0911 allowed for the removal of a diseased locust tree in the center of the rear yard. <br />COA 1991-0607 allowed for the removal of a dead tree. COA 2006-0604 allowed for the retrofitting of the original <br />sashes in the bay window area. COA 2021-0805 allowed for the continued retrofitting of original windows in the <br />master bedroom and bathroom on the second floor. COA 2009-0731C allowed for the continued retrofitting of the <br />original windows in the guestrooms I and II on the second floor. COA 2010-0920 allowed for the removal of the <br />locust tree int the rear yard. COA 2011-1116 allowed for the Code Enforcement requested demolition of the two <br />story carriage house at the rear of the property. COA 2014-0815 allowed for the removal and replacement (in-kind) <br />of the soffit, fascia, crown, and built-in eve-trough framing on the curve of the porch. COA 2016-0628A allowed <br />for the removal and replacement of damaged sections of the fence. COA 2017-0831A allowed for roof and gutter <br />repair. AA 2019-0522A allowed for roof repairs and replacement on the west façade roof. AA 2021-0308A <br />allowed for foundation reconstruction work (in kind). COA 2021-1029A allowed for landscaping, garage <br />modifications, and the addition of a back door to the side/back porch. <br /> <br />APPLICATION ITEMS: Install Andersen 100 series window in the mudroom in the garage addition. <br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The applicant has requested approval for the following: <br /> <br />1. Install an Andersen 100 Series Fibrex window in the mudroom in lieu of the previously applied for <br />and approved Marvin Aluminum-Clad “Ultimate” window that was approved at the November <br />2021 HPC meeting. <br /> <br />Following the November HPC meeting, the property owner attempted to order the approved Marvin Aluminum- <br />Clad “Ultimate” series window for the mudroom in the garage addition. Per correspondence on December 6th, <br />“lead time” for ordering the approved window is 44 weeks. The applicant is requesting approval for the Andersen <br />100 series “Fibrex” composite window in lieu of the Marvin Ultimate Aluminum-Clad window. The “Fibrex” <br />windows are constructed of a composite mix of wood and plastic. <br /> <br />Staff consider A) the garage to be a later / secondary addition that has been extensively altered, and B) this <br />proposed project to be discrete/separate from any proposal for replacement of the original / historic windows.