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Home My WebLink About201904-08 1635 email porter1 Minyard, Brian From:Paul Porter <Paul.Porter@arkansas.gov> Sent:Monday, April 08, 2019 4:35 PM To:Steve Harrelson Cc:Minyard, Brian Subject:RE: PU2909 Villa Marre National Register Nomination Attachments:Additional Historical Info-Villa Marre.pdf; 1982 QQA Holidays-Villa Marre.pdf; 1966 Newspaper Article-Villa Marre.pdf Hi Steve, You are most welcome for the information and insights. One of the things we focused a lot of attention on during my graduate work in Oregon was how water moves and finds the path of least resistance. Since it rains about 6 months a year there, it was a big issue and that training has come in handy on numerous occasions! I had some time late in the day today to pull the red folder to see what was in it. I scanned and attached some additional historical information on the house as well as two newspaper articles, one from 1966, and the other from the holidays in 1982. I had to reposition the newspapers to try to get the images in a couple of sheets. Otherwise there were 3 copies of the National Register nomination that I shared with you last week. You are still more than welcome to come look at the documents at your leisure. Cheers, Paul Paul Porter Technical Services Coordinator/Conservation Easement Coordinator Arkansas Historic Preservation Program a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage 1100 North Street | Little Rock, AR 72201 office: 501.683.6672 fax: 501.324.9154 ArkansasPreservation.com Facebook | Twitter #AuthenticArkansas #ArkansasPreservation From: Steve Harrelson <Steve@Harrelsonfirm.com> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 1:45 PM To: Paul Porter <Paul.Porter@arkansas.gov> Cc: 'Minyard, Brian' <BMinyard@littlerock.gov> Subject: RE: PU2909 Villa Marre National Register Nomination Wow, thank you for this message. I enjoyed the visit with both of you guys. I had not seen the nomination form prior to this, and it provides some great information I did not know. Also, thank you for the insight on the water infiltration/roof problems. I will certainly broach this with Bray. I’ll keep you posted on everything and will let you know what I learn from Becky Witsell. I’m very much looking forward to working with you as I move forward with repairs. Steve 2 www.harrelsonfirm.com Little Rock Office: Ark. Capital Commerce Center 200 River Market Ave., Ste. 600 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 Tel.: (501) 476-3012 Fax: (501) 665-1572 Texarkana Office: The Foreman Building 300 State Line Avenue Texarkana, USA 71854 Tel.: (870) 772-0300 Fax: (870) 772-0302 Shreveport Office: Regions Tower 333 Texas Street, Ste. 1300 Shreveport, Louisiana 71101 Tel.: (318) 300-3880 Fax: (318) 404-1580 From: Paul Porter <Paul.Porter@arkansas.gov> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 1:52 PM To: Steve Harrelson (Steve@Harrelsonfirm.com) <Steve@Harrelsonfirm.com> Cc: Minyard, Brian <BMinyard@littlerock.gov> Subject: PU2909 Villa Marre National Register Nomination Hi Steve, Thank you again for your hospitality this morning and for the tour of the house. What a terrific place to live! As promised, I attached a copy of the National Register Nomination for the house. It was listed in 1970, so the nomination is a bit thin on the description. I’ll check with our National Register program coordinator Ralph Wilcox, to see what other information he may have on the house in a red folder. I was thinking more about the water infiltration issue and the interior water damage in the house. I attached two of the photos I took for your reference about what I am going to describe next. One is looking out of the narrow hallway upstairs that goes to that back bedroom overlooking the kitchen roof. The rolled roofing looks like it was installed properly and goes part way up the wall to terminate under the flashing. What does look like a suspect point to me for water to get in is how the gutters are installed. The gutters are integrated into the top of the brick cornice. In the other photograph, the gutters are integrated into the wood cornice which projects out from the brick wall. You can see how the two different designs come together on the corner above the north side door going into the corridor between the kitchen and the study (smoking room?) in the second photograph. If there are breached seams in the bottoms of the gutters where the sections meet, that would account for the water damage that has gotten all the way in down to the basement through the brick wall. I’d be willing to bet money that is why you have water damage showing on the interior in various places. I would recommend that when Bray Sheet Metal comes to do the work that they will find breached seams in the bottoms of the gutters. Ask them if there is an additional water and ice shield that they can install under the integrated gutter trays to help prevent water from infiltrating the brick walls if the metal gutter seams give way in the future. Hopefully this would help minimize water running down the inside of the walls and migrating through to the interior surfaces. I sure hope Becky Witsell still has her notes and documentation of all the color work she did at Villa Marre. The stencils you have are wonderful and even though they weren’t stored very well, their existence is quite valuable for doing paint repairs. Thank you again very much for your time this morning and it was great to meet you and your mom in person. I’m looking forward to working with you on the repairs to the house! Cheers, Paul Paul Porter Technical Services Coordinator/Conservation Easement Coordinator Arkansas Historic Preservation Program a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage 3 1100 North Street | Little Rock, AR 72201 office: 501.683.6672 fax: 501.324.9154 ArkansasPreservation.com Facebook | Twitter #AuthenticArkansas #ArkansasPreservation