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w • Morrie Trautman: We have seen the rendering of what is proposed and we saw the windows in the basement which will be installed. The design is consistent with the architecture of the building. Mark French: I am comfortable including that as part of the decision and would like a motion to include that. The new conference room will help make the property usable which helps preserve it. I'd like to discuss the building style a little,too. It definitely has elements of an American Foursquare. Also,it was obviously an early mixed use building with a public/retail face and also the home feel. Mr. Turnbull obviously understood that and created a very formal face. Some Foursquares had brick if there was money involved, but the front looks to me like Mr. Turnbull might have started with a Foursquare because of the economy or the shape, then embellished it with Colonial Revival details. Or it may have been a Colonial Revival with American Foursquare details. I would like to get a little more language about these details in the description of the property for the record. It does represent more than just a American Foursquare, and I think we should honor Mr. Turnbull's early gesture at trying to blend the styles. Jan Meston: We can do that before the nomination goes to City Council. We do get requests for information on register properties, so the more detail the better. Sandra Alder: I agree with Mark's suggestion. Once it is recorded, it's nice to have the description correct. Mark French: I applaud the work that the Halls have done. The property did fall into the right hands,which doesn't happen very often. Barb Hardman: This is a great example of how you can rehabilitate a building and get it on the register but still find successful adaptive reuse. Mark French: Adaptive reuse is what we need to educate the public and property owners on. We can save a lot of our history with that process. Barb Hardman moved to recommend placing the Challacombe & Fickel Funeral Home building on the Everett Register, to approve the proposed design for a conference room in the porte-cochere, and to recommend an expanded description of the building's architecture be added to the nomination form. Morrie Trautman seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. Special Valuation for Challacombe& Fickle Building Mark French: Next we will consider the application for Special Valuation for the Challacombe& Fickle Building. Jan Meston: Your recommendation on placement on the Everett Register goes to City Council for final decision,but the Historical Commission makes the final decision on Special Valuation 5