Bangor Historic Preservation Commission backs copper roof work at 28 West Broadway

[0:15] Peter Keebler: Did you bring a gavel home with you? [0:19] Nathaniel King: No, I've got a busted Xbox controller I can use, I guess. That'll work. Yeah, they don't hold up well to toddlers chewing on them. [0:38] Peter Keebler: They don't hold up well in a toddler-free household either, just so you know. [0:44] Nathaniel King: Okay, well, it's 7 o'clock. Do we want to start? Is the applicant there? Yes. Okay, I can't find the email that has the script. So if y'all are okay, we'll dismiss with the script. [1:02] Peter James Sachs: We're good with it. [1:04] Peter Keebler: Okay, I guess I shouldn't speak for you. Oh yeah, that's fine. [1:08] Nathaniel King: Well, welcome to the October 8th, 2026 meeting of the City of Bangalore Historic Preservation Commission. The first item on our agenda is old business, which would be the approval of the meeting minutes from September 24th, 2026. [1:25] Peter Keebler: I'd like to move for us to adopt the meeting minutes from September 24th, 2026. They look great. [1:31] Peter James Sachs: Second the motion. Yes. [1:35] Nathaniel King: Yes, and I also vote yes. The second item of old business is the adoption of findings and decision for 225 Cedar Street. I'd [1:48] Peter Keebler: like to move for us to adopt the finding decisions for 225 Cedar Street from the previous meeting. Second the motion. Yes. [1:58] Nathaniel King: And I will also vote yes. That concludes the old business on the agenda. So now we will move on to the new business, which is a certificate of appropriateness for 28 West Broadway, map lot 2265. The applicant is Blackstone Restoration, and the homeowner is Steven and Allison Fries. So if the applicant would like to approach the podium, make sure the microphone lit green and give your presentation. [2:25] Peter James Sachs: Nate, before we do that, I need to put forth a potential conflict of interest. Blackstone Restoration rents a workshop space from me. I do not believe this is a conflict of interest, as I have no financial holdings in the company or influence. They are a tenant. If they were not my tenant, then I would have someone else rent it. So I do not think this is a conflict, but I did want to bring it forward as a potential for consideration. Okay, Katie, any [2:58] Peter Keebler: thoughts? I believe we've considered this before and found it to be not a conflict. I'd like to move that it's not a conflict in this instance. [3:07] Nathaniel King: And I don't believe that Peter can second that, so we'll just, I'll second it and go ahead and we'll [3:18] Peter Keebler: vote. I guess I am voting yes that this is not a conflict, and I am also voting that this is not [3:25] Nathaniel King: a conflict of interest. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. Thank you all. [3:38] Matthew R. Weitkamp: Right, good evening members of the commission, the consultant poll, and staff. My name is Matthew Weickamp. I am here today in a professional capacity to represent Blackstone Restoration, Stephen and Allison Fries for the proposed project at the Georgie Thompson House at 28 West Broadway. It's an expansion of a previously approved project for the Carriage House. We're doing much of the same, or proposing do much of the same work a little bit about the background of the house it was built by or is built for George E. Thompson he was a probate or Penasca County attorney it was constructed in the early 20th century and it was built by a very skilled or is designed by very skilled architect C. Procker Crowell and has this beautiful fenestrated facade with fan lights and balustrades. It's an absolutely lovely house and survived very well over the century plus that it's been standing. But there are a couple of problems with this structure. And this is my normal spiel, mixed metals. When you mix all kinds of different metals, they react with each other and they corrode each other and then water gets in the building and it rots. And that's what's happening here. It's currently steel and aluminum and the steel is corroding the aluminum on the hips. Water's getting in. It also has lead and that's corroding the steel and water's getting in the gutters. And we want to fix this. And the way to do it was with redoing the metal on the entire building. And we're proposing to use copper. Here are a couple of problem areas where you can see the mixed metals reacting and the downspout outlet actually dropped out of this gutter and the water is pouring into the soffit and over the front facade there's been attempts to repair the steel roof with ep damages of rubber material and those repairs have failed and water is getting in there as well so our proposal is to replace the steel gutters or the with the wooden gutters that are lined with steel with copper and I have an example for you guys if you want to take a peek in my box first here it ends up being something like this I can pass it around if anyone wants to see it. We will not be replacing any of the wooden gutters themselves. They appear to be in serviceable condition. If they do need to be replaced, they'll be replaced in kind. These are Douglas fir and they're made in Oregon and they're a lovely material to work with. There are a couple areas of damaged carpentry where the arrows are on the PowerPoint presentation. And we're going to replace in kind with mahogany instead of the pine. Pine. The pine that's currently available is extremely soft and porous and doesn't last well in the main environment. So we're going to replace it with sapele, commonly known as mahogany. I have two more samples for you guys. That'd be fun. You can feel the density and difference in the materials. It's very evident. And if we're doing this work, we are we just want it to last. And it's so expensive to do that we should do it once. And for the metal, we're gonna choose 20 ounce copper, which has 20 ounces of weight per square foot. And I have a sample of that as well. I have a, this is a lighter gauge. Lighter? Yeah, that is. That's 60 ounces per square foot. I thought I put the, it's probably just buried in here to be honest. So moving on we replace all the copper or the steel gutter liners with copper and solder all the joints and if we're doing that we can't have steel valleys because they'll react with each other so we're proposing to replace all of those as well with 20 ounce copper. And then the next logical step is to replace some other things with copper. One of the consultants once questioned was about the vent pipe. It is highlighted by the arrow there, and this is what it will look like. It will be replaced by this instead of a rubber.