Historic Zoning Commission

Market Square H-1: Level II

3-E-13-HZ

Staff Recommendation

APPROVAL to renew Certificate of Appropriateness #100611MKT to cover balcony floor grate w/black metal roofing material and hang blade sign underneath the balcony. Install a series of single, exposed marqui bulbs along edge of the balcony valance.


Location Knoxville
407 Union Ave 37917

Owner
Oliver Hotel

Applicant Request
Level II. Replacement/repair
Signs
Modifications to the existing faux wrought iron balcony to include roofing the existing metal grate floor of the structure with black metal roofing material and enclosing an 8-inch space under it to house the wiring of a new hanging blade sign. The new blade sign will hang from the balcony floor grating and will be edged with single exposed bulbs. Also, install edge-lighting of a series of single, exposed marqui bulbs along the edge of the balcony valance as per submitted drawings.

Italianate Commercial (c.1886)
    Peter Kern Building. Three story, three bay brick building with similar facades. Bracketed ornamental metal cornice. Segmental arched replacement windows. Ornamental metal window hoods. Ornamental brick string course between second and third stories. Applied keystones above windows. c. 1980 storefront. Entrance to upper stories on south elevation (407 Union).

    The first recorded occupancy of the building was by Peter Kern Co. bakers and confectioners in 1876. The building housed the Cole, Inc. Pharmacy from 1935 through 1965, and the upper floors have served as a small boutique hotel since the 1980s. The building is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places as The Mall Building, and is included in the Market Square National Register Historic District as well.
Applicant

Joshua Joshua Wright - Architects Wright Architects Wright


Planning Staff
Kaye Graybeal
Phone: 215-2500
Email: contact@knoxplanning.org

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