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<br />1. Restore original front porch footprint. During the house’s period of vacancy the enclosed bit of the <br />front porch was badly damaged and under an earlier COA I re-opened and re-roofed it, but have <br />been waiting until I was ready to restore the entire porch. This project would re-floor the damaged <br />side porch and restore the long leg of the “L” across the front of the house. There are no extant <br />older photos of the house, but paint shadow and a couple of remaining scraps indicates that the <br />windows were originally decorated with gingerbread trim across the tops and bullseye rosettes at <br />the corners. On the other hand, nothing I’ve learned about the house indicates that it was anything <br />like as elaborate as its larger neighbors on Park and Forest and closer to the river on Leland. So to <br />restore the porch I’m going for a style that is ornate…but not too ornate. Middle-class Victorian like <br />the original owners! I have salvaged materials of the right age from the area including columns, <br />corbels, and porch railings; they should all be perfectly functional after I strip and repaint them. I <br />intend to use beadboard for the ceilings and tongue-and-groove salvaged flooring and to use <br />shingles matching the existing house roof. I would use wood lattice to cover the space under the <br />porch, like my neighboring house (shown). <br /> <br /> 3 showing current situation of house