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MAR^IB-95 14.63 FROM. AGUIR~ENGINEERB INC. ID. • PACE 16 Mrs. Ann Tatum March 18, 1995 Page 8 between the family room and the den. There has bean considerable weathering of the plaster at the very top where the one end two-story parts come together. These are a series of en- echalon cracks as oppaaad to a single crack. The width of the crack zone Is a foot or more. with cracks more pronounced toward the top. The windows and doors on the autslda of the family room have hairline type cracks. At the door there is one that goes tap to bottom that appears relatively recent compareQto some of the others, but this hea leas then 118" width. The cracks appear marginally wider near the top, so that there maY ba a little more stretch at the top than at the bottom. There is a lawn around the house and some flagstone walks: There is a fall of at least a foot in the first 10 feat sway from the home along the north wall. There Is a flagstone walk along the entire front of the home and a brick•lined flower bad. The overall fell here is flatter, maybe 6 inches in the first 10 teat. In the front porch ores there ere noticeable Crooks inside the residence, The same cracking exists very dramatically Inside the porch with a 1 /4' width crack extending up the northeast side of the porch above the lintel. There Is a similar crack In the southwest. Here the crack goes from about 2 feet above ground up to the ceiling, widening from hairline at the hottom to about 1!4" at the top. Thars ors a aeries of en-echelon tears that extend up to a foot out from the wall Itself, gluing the impression that the front wall has pulled away. There are other assorted cracks in the various corners of ttw porch area. At the south side of the house there is a walled-In garden. There is a minor ground elope away from the house. Thera maybe some minor reverse slope toward the house in the area next to the covered porch. However, there are no roof downspouts in that area. Where the roof scupper discharges, the drainage is sllghUY hatter, but it doesn't look like ii has changed for a long time. Photographs taken In the area in the 1930's show the patio wall. It appears that drainage here is not a changed condition which could lead to renewed settlement. There era minor shrinkage cracks In the patio and garage walls, particularly in the fire place arse at the south end of the covered patio. The home sks on a promontory that extends northland, into the Purgatoire River. The river meanders to the north and then back to the south around the residence. The residence is on a terrace. There appear to be three distinct terraces near the residence. The lowest is the modern stream level, which is found to be north, helow the residence. The residence sits on an intermediate terrace. There is a higher terrace between the residence and the hillside south Dt the valley. Wsat of the home In the farm yard area, there is a roadway ramp down to the lower terrace. The terrace materials on which the house rests are exposed and are gravelly liver cobble materials.