The Landmarks Preservation Commission addressed unresolved code enforcement corrections and restoration plans for two adjacent properties on York Road (14941 and 14943), issuing conditional approvals for siding and certain window and door restorations and approving a revised landscape plan while denying parts of a recently constructed hyphen addition.

Staff reported that 14941 York Road — a ca. 1880 frame building known informally as the Blacksmith House — had unauthorized exterior work (vinyl siding, vinyl windows, altered openings) done prior to the current owner’s purchase. The applicants removed vinyl siding in May 2025 and proposed to repair and replace in kind with wood German‑lap siding and to reinstall wood windows and historically appropriate doors where openings were previously altered. Staff recommended issuing a certificate of appropriateness for siding and conditional approval for windows and doors subject to three conditions: all replacement wood windows must have simulated divided lights; the north‑elevation transom should be a three‑light transom; and a north‑elevation entry should be a four‑panel colonial‑style wood door rather than the applicant’s proposed nine‑light door. Commissioners voted to follow staff recommendations and asked the applicant to submit final drawings to staff for confirmation.

On the adjacent 14943 York Road (Rodney House), staff recommended approval of a revised hardscaping/landscape plan that restores paved areas to grass or appropriate stone and the installation of a bluestone walkway. However, the commission declined to approve a recent hyphen addition as proposed (the small connector linking the rear frame addition to the garage) and asked the owner to return with a more compatible design that would read as a distinct hyphen (for example, stepped back from the main wall plane and with a different roof treatment), rather than the current design that made the addition read as a continuous extension of the main house. The commission approved the hardscaping work and required the applicant to return with corrected hyphen drawings.