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Application For A Certificate Of Appropriateness Address of Property for proposed work: 1611 East Wayne Street Name of Property Owners: James Patrick Schmiedeler and Ren6e Marie LaReau Address of Property Owners: 1611 East Wayne Street Contractor Name: Chris Kohler Contract Company Name: Kohler Home Improvement Contractor Address: 22845 Madison Road City: South Bend Phone: (574) 299-4975 Current Use of Building: Single Family Type of Building Construction: Brick Proposed Work: Replacement (not in-kind) 1 Description of Proposed Work - Window and Storm Door Replacement The two-story brick house at 1611 East Wayne Street, pictured in Fig. 1, contains 30 windows (plus 4 block glass windows in the basement that are in good condition and not relevant to this application), a front door, a side door, and a pair of rear French doors. On Wednesday, May 8, 2008, Thomas Feehan of The Feehan Corporation (52105 Woodridge Drive, South Bend) conducted a whole -house inspection of the property per the current owners' purchase agreement with the previous owner. Feehan's summary of the inspection, found in Appendix 1 of this application; states in item 4: "In the living room open the paint sealed windows. Throughout the house the windows are paint stuck, have broken sash cords, loose putty and chipping lead based paint. Repair or replace the windows:' The 30 windows in the house consist of: • 16 double hung wood windows — 8 with bare aluminum storms (request to replace all) — 5 with wood storms (request to replace 1, others to be retained and repaired) — 3 with white aluminum storms (request to replace all) • 5 vinyl picture windows (request to replace all) • 4 wood windows that match the rear French doors (to be retained) • 3 hinged wood windows (request to replace 1, others to be retained and repaired) • 2 leaded glass wood windows (to be retained) The owners met with three different contractors to explore their options for repairing and replacing the windows as recommended by the inspection. Based upon these consultations, the owners herein request to replace 18 of the 30 windows in the house with Marvin Insert wood windows in order to: 1