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maintenance, however, their central location in this historic district together with their <br />• design, setting, materials, feeling, and association make them structures which are an integral <br />part of the design district and which do contribute to the historic significance of both the <br />local design control district - District A - and to the overlapping federal and state historic <br />district. <br />4. The structures at 1 I 1 and 107 East Main were built in 1892, but of those two, only <br />the eastern facade (I11) remains today. The other structures, at 101 and 105 were built in <br />1916. <br />5. The design, age, texture, and material of these structures are such that they cannot <br />be successfully replicated in context; <br />• 6. The facade of 107 has not been retained, but most of the other structures on the <br />exterior retain their original turn of the 201' Century distinguishing architectural qualities of <br />custom sand -molded and hard pressed brickwork, articulated corbeled brick parapets, <br />sandstone beltcourses, ornamental window design, and storefront detailing; <br />7. Neither the structures nor their features represent "one -of -a -kind", first or last <br />examples of a particular type of architecture, but nevertheless they do represent authentic <br />examples of the commercial architecture just before and after 1900. <br />8. In light of their current overall condition, by undergoing careful rehabilitation these <br />structures are capable of earning a reasonable economic return; <br />9. Applicant has recently purchased the subject properties; and, as such, the <br />0 3 <br />