Historic Zoning Commission

Fourth and Gill H-1: Level II

2-F-12-HZ

Staff Recommendation

DENY installation of spindlework balustrade on front porch based on guidelines that details must use materials that present a visually and physically appropriate appearance historically & no documentation of this type of balustrade being original.


Location Knoxville
940 Eleanor St 37917

Owner
Vanessa Vanessa Todd

Applicant Request
Level II. Replacement/repair
Porch elements
Add spindlework balustrade with the top rail mounted at 36 inches high to front porch (in place of a late-added balustrade that had been removed at some earlier point.)

Queen Anne --Free Classic (c. 1900)
    Two-story frame with weatherboard wall covering. Hip roof with lower cross gables, asphalt shingle roof covering. One-over-one double-hung windows. One -story full front porch with round columns with Ionic capitals, dentil molding under shed porch roof, tongue and groove floor, beadboard ceiling. Exterior side brick chimney. Brick foundation. Irregular plan. Projecting one-story bay on front elevation under porch roof One- story rear porch with columns and shed-roofed read addition at second story balcony with round wood posts on weatherboard balustrade.
Applicant

Vanessa Vanessa Todd


Case History