3. 420 South Eddy Street_COA 2022-0606

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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: June 14, 2022 Application Number: 2022-0606 Property Location: 420 South Eddy Street Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: International / 1956-1957 / Charles W. Cole & Son (Architects, designed in 1951) Property Owner: South Bend Community School Corporation Landmark or District Designation: Included within the legal boundary of the Jefferson School Local Landmark, ordinance #9089-2000 Rating: School is rated Outstanding DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: Two story wedge-shaped structure on a cement foundation. Walls made of brick with running bond of red and gray brick with white mortar, corners are not right-angles. Corner brick is interlocking and decorative. Roof is flat with stone cap parapet, chimney is canted to echo the rear plane of the building façade. Side wings are single-level and flat-topped, with wide wood overhangs and aluminum cornices. Deeply inset front entry is also canted to echo the rear plane of the building. Entry is double-leaved, fully glazed, with sidelights. Entry surround is wide cut-limestone block and esxtends vertically from foundation to roof line, encompassing a wide glass block panel on 2nd level. Coursed metal framed awning windows in panels of eight. Glazing is opaque blue. Windows form double horizontal bands across front façade. Glass block panels at rear with limestone sills. ALTERATIONS: HPC has records for projects related to Jefferson School, including eleven issued COAs. Two (2) COAs have been issued for School Field. APPLICATION ITEMS: “Replace the single pane glass non-thermal metal frame windows on the building west elevation with new insulated glass and panels in thermally broken metal frames. The existing configuration / elevation appearance of the windows – 5’ frame widths and vertical mull spacing – has been retained with the replacement window design. The vent sash style – a project out awning – for the replacement windows is the same sash type as in the existing windows. Taking a design que from the deep projecting overhangs on the building ends, a projecting sunscreen louver is incorporated onto the first floor windows full length of the openings. The existing masonry openings are retained without any change in size or configuration.” DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The applicant has requested retroactive approval to: Replace existing steel framed windows on four sections of the primary façade of the structure. Each bank of windows is approximately 79’ 8 7/8”). The submitted renderings indicate that the configuration of these windows will change, with the upper third of the window being covered, and the lower two-third with glazing. A sunshade will be added below the filled-in upper third of the window opening. Replace two smaller sections of existing steel framed windows on the first floor. Each of these sections is approximately 12’ 8 7/8”. Per the submitted renderings, these window openings will be three windows tall. Replacement windows will be “EFCO” 550-I aluminum windows, indicated as “Architectural Grade Projected Flush-Face Window”. Staff were notified that work was being executed on the Building Services structure at the Jefferson School complex on May 24th. No building permit was acquired for the work in advance of construction. Staff met with the architect and other representatives of the property owner later that day regarding the proposed project. The original steel windows were in groupings of eight with mullions. Each group of eight panes is separated from the next grouping by muntins. A number of window sections have previously had panes removed and replaced with