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STAFF REPORT • CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: June 7, 2018 Application Number: 2018-0605 Property Location: 608 Park Avenue Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: American Foursquare/ 1910 Property Owner: Stu Harrison Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Local (Ordinance #9574-05) and National Historic District Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/SITE: 608 Park is a two story American foursquare set upon a brick foundation. The exterior walls of the house are wood shingles with a bell flare at the lower course. The low pitch hip roof has wide soffit overhang and molded cornice and is covered with asphalt shingles. There is a full width front porch with shed roof. The porch has square supports with capitals, wood shingle solid railing, brackets at the eaves and molded fascia. The windows a wood double hung 9/1 on the second and first floors; a fixed triple panel window at the front. Most of the windows on the first floor have original wood storms. There are aluminum storms on some of the second floor windows. There are 3/3 double hung at the basement level a fixed 6 light in the basement and several fixed 3 light in the foundation level. ALTERATIONS: The storm door is not original to the house. The window shutters were added before 1987. The aluminum storm windows and the asphalt roof material are replacements. COA #2009-0109 allowed for the installation of a temporary handicap ramp on the front doorstep. COA #2017-0720 allowed for the replacement of • rotted wood on the front porch and back porch. COA #2017-0829 allowed for the relaying of brick of the chimney, the columns, and the foundation. Multiple non -original windows exist, it is unknown when these were installed. APPLICATION ITEMS: "See attachment." "Installing Quaker Windows" "Homeowner is desiring all functional, safe, and matching windows that would keep with the historical pattern of the home." DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Applicant seeks a Certificate of Appropriateness for the replacement of 10 windows (five double hung windows and five casement windows) with Quaker Classic Fit Series aluminum clad windows. None of the windows to be replaced directly face the street. The applicant has included their assessments of the windows with their application. They are also contacting window restoration professionals for their estimates on whether the original windows could be rehabilitated, and what that would cost. Window distribution, size, and provenance as follows: 1. North face window, corresponding to the interior stairwell. a. 26" x 27 'h" 2. North face window a. 25 3/4" x 27 ''/2" 3. North face window a. 29 3/4" x 45 ''/z" 4. North face window • a. 29 3/4" x 45 ''h" 5. East face window a. 23 3/4" x 45 ''h" 6. East face window — casement window, facing the rear of the property. a. 23'/4"x28