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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.hpc.19840510RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS 100 Leaves Historic Preservation Committee Special Meeting Sorensen Danish An~ik's 734 W. Main St. On May 10th, Mary Webster, part owner of the Sorensen's Danish An~iks at 734 W.Main Street, called Connie Mc Crudden to say that she had just spoken to Bill Drueding about painting their shop. She called Bill because with everything they had done to the house previous years, they had to get permission from the building inspector. Bill informed her that "No, she did not have to go through his department, but that she would have to go through HPC." He informed her, how ~ver that Colette was out of town, and that she would have to wait for her return. Mary then asked for a list of the HPC members, and picked Connie name to call. She felt very frustrated about having to wait 3-4 weeks to paint as both she and Liz were to be in Europe on a buying trip then. They also had a lined up a painter for the following Monday and definitey wanted to get started if at all possible, so that the house would look fresh for the beginning of the coming season. I told her that I would check with Bill Drueding and Pam to see what procedure I could follow. Neither one of them saw any problem with calling a special meeting, as long as we had a quoram. Connie proceeded to reach all HPC members in the next couple of days but could find no one at home except Terry End, Mona Frost, and Gretchen Greenwood. This made a total of four counting Connie, and she presented Mary's plan to the members over the phone. Gretchen was the only one out of the four of us who did not like the idea of the house being painted white. She felt that it was "too strong of a statement for that corner." Terry and Mona were receptive for the white color and the blue trim over the phone, but felt that we should meet at the house and discuss the blue trim and see the color. After much more phoning, trying to get other members to come, ended up with just the three of us meeting Mary Webster at the Danish Antiks on Saturday May 12 at 4 pm. Mary had a color rendering showing all the trim details. Mona and Terry both felt that the detailed painting of the fish scales was going to be too "busy" so we decided that we would give our okay on painting the house white with blue trim, but would come back for another "on site" look when they started painting the fish scales. Since CoNnie had been able to reach Gretchen on the first call, but could not get her get her again to inform her of the site meeting, Connie said she felt that Gretchen was aware of what was being voted on here, so just assumed she would of voted against the white paint, so therefore we had a 3 out of 4 vote for the new white paint job. By about the 21st of May we met again to look at the blue and white fish scales,. Again I had tried to get hold of all the members, but this time found Nick Pasquarella to join the 3 of us who had orginally voted. After seeing the application of the blue and white paint on the fish scales, everyone agreed they liked it. There was criticism of the application of the blue paint on the porch rails posts and the larger porch roof support posts. Also of the blue floor of the porch. Mary W~sterexplained that because of the endless traffic on the corner, the dirt problem was always severe and said that the blue floor would not show the dirt. After much discussion of which rung should or should not be blue, it was finnaly voted on to paint the smaller rungs on the porch rail posts blue, but to leave the larger roof support posts completely white. On May 27th Mary Webster called Connie at her office to say that she really did not like the larger posts on the porch all white as it seemed to lift your eyes right up to the top of the house instead of keeping a focus on the porch and entry, and would Connie mind trying to get hold of everyone again and having them drive by to see how she had had the posts painted. If they really still did not like it she would paint them all out white as soon as she returned from Europe. Being the Memorial Day weekend Connie said she could not get hold of any one and she had to be in Denver the next week. Connie went on to say that she personnally felt that the way they ware painted now looks quite nice and and observing many other posts on similar porches throughtout the town, the small rungs are usually painted a contrasting color. Connie said she would like to add for the record, that when concerned business people and residence owners, are feeling obligated to improve their properties, spend thousands of dollars in doing so, because they have pride in these building and pride in what they are selling, she feels that this committee's nortorius "knit-picking" over minute details is ridiculous and embarassing. Please, lets re evalute what we are trying really to do. Taken from a memo from Connie Mc Crudden for the record for the happenings of this project and what transpired.