Mike check, Mike Check.

Welcome to the January 14, 2026.

Board.

We have uh went off, sorry.

I'll start over again.

Welcome uh to uh the meeting for Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 of the Newark Shell Historical Landmarks Review Board.

Uh we have uh a couple of items first, approval of minutes.

We have none, so we're we can go right to our item two.

Um I think we need a roll call.

I always skip that second.

Yeah, sure.

Uh Rose Bufamante is out.

Lucia Elliott here.

Jim Fleming?

Here.

Keith Gordon is out, Leanne Merchant, here.

Balkies Reyes Keeny.

Here.

Don Richards, here.

And staff members with us today, Saraya Ben Habib, uh Deputy Building Official Kevin Kane, Director of Planning Sustainability, and myself, Benito Seha.

Okay.

Wonderful.

Uh I'll read the uh item two uh items, uh public hearing two point one application HLRB five two oh two five uh by Walter Nessler for a certificate of appropriateness to construct below ground pool at 10 Manhattan Avenue, block eight two five lot fifty-one and our one historic zone district.

This this hearing is adjourned until further notice.

Uh we can go directly to two point two, which is application HLRB.

2025 by Elena Bart for a certificate of appropriateness to replace 19 windows at 31 the Boulevard, block eight two nine, lot thirty-four in an R1 historic zone district.

This also is adjourned to the next meeting, February meeting.

Uh which brings us to two point three application HLRB 12026 by Fernando Chavez.

Architect PL L C for a certificate of appropriateness to reconstruct an enclosed sunroom in the rear and replace windows at 91 Courtland Avenue.

In an R1 Historic Zone District.

Uh zoned under the R1 historic.

Um designed in the two-door revival style.

The house's exterior is primarily made up of stonemasonry with uh at the lower story with uh stucco uh finish at the upper story and red slate roof.

And the building footprint is approximately three thousand square feet on a roughly half acre lot uh and it's frontage basically against the Cortland Avenue um with a corner cul-de-sac condition that it shares that cul de sac with another neighbor to the east.

Uh so to begin, this is the previously existing north facade photos taken roughly around December 2024.

And this is the this best illustrates the previously existing condition with the windows in terms of the lighting uh sorry, the muntains and the type number of lights, the historic condition that we'll be touching on throughout this application as far as the window replacement on the visible facades.

This facade faces directly on Coralin Avenue, but is set back roughly 35 feet or so from the street line.

And this is the current condition today.

Um primarily to notice is the existing condition of the stucco, which we will also be discussing is uh the stucco restoration scopes, repair, patching, uh, which is also part of this application.

And here's a couple more views.

Uh the photo on the left is the view of the east facade as it is seen, I believe, September 2025.

And then on the right is the west facade, um, which was taken on January 6, 2026.

And a few more photos showing the stucco, the existing stucco situation, um, as far as the damage is significant cracking along the facade, uh, a lot of delamination, water damage behind the paintwork of the stucco.

And this is sort of just like our restoration strategy, so we're opting for a much more um conservative uh restorative approach.

We're trying to preserve as much of the existing historic stucco as possible.

And wherever patching is needed, we're going to go with a three-coat system, either metal lath or wood lath, um, and match the exist match to the existing stucco seamlessly in terms of tooling, texturing as closely as possible.

And uh here we have uh a couple of um photos that I've taken, sort of uh like a color match of the existing stucco to make sure that the new paint that's going to go on the stucco wherever patched matches as closely as possible to the historic precedent.

Um for this particular case, we found that the Benjamin Moore Benjamin Moore China White PM20 fits the closest.

And then moving on uh to other aspects of the facade.

We're also looking at the color match for the potential restoration of some windows located at the facade, uh, which we found to be a H H C 190 black, but also by Benjamin Moore.

Uh so for there's uh sort of multi-faceted scope for the window replacement and restoration at the visible facades.

Um a total of I believe 20 windows will be replaced.

Um with this particular model from Marvin Ultimate, it's a casement window.

And we selected this particular manufacturer due to their flexibility with design, uh the profile depth, a lot of a lot of benefits in terms of using them on historic projects such as this.

In particular, uh our interest is to match the uh existing muntains design, the the amount of lights on each window, uh, and the amount of mullians.

And for the exterior finish, in order to match that black that we that I just mentioned, uh we're going with their standard ebony, which matches the closest to uh that historic black on the frame of the windows and doors.

And for the restored windows, and in the following slide we'll see a little bit more detail in the elevations, but uh these are a few of the windows, three of the five windows that we were restored as part of this package, and they all have uh been professionally restored.

Uh they have glas uh leaded came and stained glass elements.

And once installed, they will follow, they will utilize the same HC 190 black that was color matched to the existing condition.

So coming to the elevation, uh I can more clearly depict where exactly these windows are located.