Level IV: Moses Armstrong House Individual HZ Landmark
1-E-26-HZ
Recommendations will be available 1 week prior to the meeting.
Applicant Request
Other: Relocation- Proposed relocation of primary structure. Relocation includes the proposed demolition of an existing non-historic garage, side and rear addition, and front porch. Primary structure is proposed to be relocated approximately 500' to the southeast, recessed to a rear corner of the property, adjacent to the Holston River. The provided estimate to move the house also includes the removal of the house from its existing foundation, and the construction of a new foundation.
- Proposed revision to historic zoning (HZ) overlay. Existing HZ overlay will be reduced to approximately 1.3 acres at the southern corner of the property.
Moses Armstrong House Individual HZ Landmark
- Style: East Tennessee Vernacular form, Federal influences, c.1805
- See attached architectural description in designation report. Two-story, three-bay, brick masonry house with a central passage plan built in 1805. The house is characterized by historic masonry, laid in Flemish bond on the main massing and common bond on the c.1840 addition, with a side-gable roof clad in terracotta tile. Mid-twentieth-century additions are located on the right side and rear, with a c.1950 garage on the left side. The roof features two interior brick chimneys. A two-story porch supported by square wood columns on brick piers, dating to the early- to mid- twentieth century, is located on the façade.
- Style: East Tennessee Vernacular form, Federal influences, c.1805
Applicable Guidelines
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings.
See Guidelines- 1. A property will be used as it was historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change to its distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships.
- 2. The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
- 3. Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken.
- 4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved.
- 5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be preserved.
- 6. Deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence. Chemical or physical treatments, if appropriate, will be undertaken using the gentlest means possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials will not be used.
- 7. Archeological resources will be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures will be undertaken.
- 8. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment.
- 9. New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.
- 10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.
- 1. A property will be used as it was historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change to its distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships.
Meeting Date
January 15, 2026
Moses Armstrong House Individual HZ Landmark
6114 Asheville Hwy. 37924
Applicant
Benjamin C. Mullins
Owner RBL, LLC
