Historic Zoning Commission

Market Square H-1: Level II

3-M-11-HZ

Staff Recommendation

DENY Certificate No. 30311MKT. Design of proposed canopy is not consistent with the architectural design and age of the building; the adopted Market Square Design Guidelines call for canvas awnings, if an awning is to be installed.


Location Knoxville
407 Union Ave

Owner
Market Square Hotel LLC

Applicant Request
Level II. Replacement/repair
Install metal canopy/awning above storefont and door openings and below transom line, to cover width of façade on each elevation facing Market Square.

NOTE: Awning recommended for denial was altered. Intent of owner (for which certificate is issued) is to omit awning, and reinstall storefront and prism glass transoms, complete with doors, to replicate historic photo of building.

Italianate Commercial (c.1872)
    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 D. Joshua D. Wright


Case History