Bill 27-16 Proposed Local Landmark Designation for 803 W Washington (Kizer House)

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The house is built of coursed gray granite, which contributes to its style including heavy massing and round arches. The mortar is a red color with a raised beaded or grapevine joint. The joint has been lost or poorly replicated on a large portion of the exterior elevations but remains as original under the front and rear porches. There is a central hip roof with numerous intersecting gables and towers, a massive parapet at the west gable, two round towers on the facade which terminate into conical roofs. The original dormers feature a conical roof with terra cotta clad sidewalls and terra cotta ridge cap. There are three dormers added c. 1940 with a low slope roof and copper sidewalls The roof originally was covered in square edge red clay tile — similar to that on Tippecanoe Place. The tile was replaced with an asphalt roof in the 198o's retaining the decorative terra cotta ridge cap. The roof is completed with a decorative copper cornice and gutters. The original copper downspouts have been replaced with galvanized metal and the valleys are all asphalt. All entry steps are of cut granite with rough stone balustrades. The front porches and Porte Cochere have slender stone column supports. The front porch has a shallow hip roof while the Porte Cochere has a gable roof with a decorative terra cotta shingled pediment. Windows around the house are 1/1 double hung wood windows throughout with stone sills, plain jambs, and massive lintel stones. The Port Cochere was added at some point following the original construction. A rear porch and kitchen wing has a matching addition assumed to be added at the time the Porte Cochere was also added. Three tall chimneys — two in the front and one in the rear — punctuate the roofline. The two front chimneys have been reduced in height by fourteen courses for safety reasons. The Carriage House in the rear of the property replaced an earlier wood frame barn c. 1915 to house automobiles with an apartment above and a full basement in poured concrete. Original basement windows have been replaced with new glass block. New wood carriage style doors were installed in 2015 along with a new wood entry door. A new asphalt shingle roof was installed in 2015. The Carriage House is constructed of hollow core clay tile block with a smooth faced red brick. The roof is a steep gabled roof with asphalt shingles and a wide bracketed boxed eave, multi -lite 6/1 double hung wood windows. The Site has been highly altered with a majority of the land being paved with concrete — the exception being an area east of the driveway extending to the sidewalk on Martin Luther King Drive which is grass with scrub trees and decorative red -buds. A small area of grass is also located to the west of the carriage house. A brick wall extends from the west elevation of the carriage house along the north alley to the neighbor's property line. A modern eight foot tall wood fence is constructed along the west property line on the Kizer House property. A six inch concrete curb runs the length of the Kizer House property line. There are two driveways to the site entering off West Washington. The original driveway entrance is near the corner of West Washington and Martin Luther King Drive. A shared drive entrance is located at the west property line with the neighbor.