Level II: Market Square H-1 (Continued From 10/18/2018)
10-D-18-HZ
Recommendations will be available 1 week prior to the meeting.
Applicant Request
Paving; Other: install rooftop guardrail- Install rooftop 3'-6" -high guardrail to be set 10+ feet back from building's front edge. To match railing at 28 Market Square which is wire mesh. The top and bottom rail is to be a 2x2 steel angle and welded to 2x2 posts.
Market Square H-1 (Continued from 10/18/2018)
- Style: Vernacular Commercial (c. 1880)
- Two story brick with stuccoed second story, replacement windows. Altered storefront. Originally matched 22-24. The A. L. Young Dry Goods Store occupied this building from 1880 to 1900. Dry goods merchants such as the McBee Trading Company and J.H. Webb continued to occupy the building until 1950, when a ladies clothes shop, a beauty shop, and a record shop could be found there. In 1965, the building became Bell Brothers Shoe Store.
- Style: Vernacular Commercial (c. 1880)
Applicable Guidelines
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings.
See Guidelines- The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings is referenced by the Market Square Design Guidelines, and the principles are utilized as a basis for those guidelines.
- 1. Every reasonable effort shall be made to provide a compatible use for a property which requires minimal alteration of the building, structure, or site and its environment, or to use a property for its originally intended purpose.
- 9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not be discouraged when . . . such design is compatible with the size, scale, color, materials, and character of the property, neighborhood or environment.
- From the Technical Preservation Services Brief Number 36; Interpreting the Secretary of Inteior's Standards for Rehabilitation: "Rooftop additions are almost never appropriate for buildings that are less than four stories high." " . . . new rooftop additions be designed so that they are inconspicuous from the public-right-of-way, and set back from the primary elevation of the building." (Document in its entirety is provided at the end of the information package.)
