Historic Zoning Commission
Jackson Avenue H-1: Level II
12-f-15-hz
Staff Recommendation
Approval of installing a double-leafed door since the framing between the two door leafs would create a less prominent vertical division than a single door and fixed panel. The solid vertical framing division would be the same width as that of the existing central double-leafed doors. Denial of dividing the original single-paned right storefront window with the installation of a center mullion since it would unnecessarily create a false sense of history.
Location Knoxville
123 W Jackson Ave 37917
OwnerHatcher-Hill Properties, LLC - Parker Bartholomew Parker Bartholomew
Applicant Request
Level II. Major repair or replacement of materials or architectural elements
Architectural feature; Doors; WindowsPostponed from 12/17/2015 HZC meeting: Replace left storefront window with a single wood-framed glass door and a matching adjacent fixed glass panel (with wood panels below) to mimic the existing pair of central entry doors. Install a mullion in the center of the left storefront to accommodate interior wall and a faux mullion in the middle of the right storefront window to match. Dimensions of muntins, doors and fixed panels as noted on drawings. Install a new step at new door to match the existing step.
Staff Comments
Romanesque Revival Influence (c. 1900)The building is a three 1/2-story, three- bay brick commercial building. Engaged rusticated stone pileasters surround wooden storefronts with wooden double-entry doors and glass transoms with wood dentil molding below transoms. Paired 1/1 double-hung windows with stone lintels and sills on second story, paired 1/1 windows with arched transoms and lintels with applied keystones on third story, arcaded cornice with stone imposts, projecting roofline. (C). The building is located within the Southern Terminal and Warehouse and the Jackson Avenue Warehouse National Register historic districts.
SECRETARY OF INTERIORS STANDARDS FOR REHABILITATING HISTORIC BUILDINGS
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure, or site and its environmental shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the history and development of a building, structure, or site and its environment. These changes may have acquired significance in their own right, and this significance shall be recognized and respected.
5. Distinctive features, finishes and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property shall be preserved.
6. Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old design, color, texture, and other visual qualities and, where possible, materials. Replacement or missing features shall be substantiated by documentary, physical or pictorial evidence.
9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to a structure shall be done in such a manner that if such additions or alterations were to be removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the structure would not be impaired.
