Level II: Market Square H-1
10-H-16-HZ
Recommendations will be available 1 week prior to the meeting.
Applicant Request
Other: Install vent pipe- Install 6-inch diameter vent pipe from second-level of front of building for interior coffee roaster. Pipe to be located along eastern-most edge of building and extend 10 feet above the top of the nearest window opening as per mechanical code. The top of pipe to be capped with metal vent cap as submittted. Finish to be oil-rubbed bronze.
Market Square H-1
- Style: Italianate Commercial (c.1935).
- S. W. Hall & Co. Building. Two -story, three-bay, brick building with modern single pane windows on front facade, chamfered corner. Two-story Italianate Commercial rear portion with access from Union Avenue, arched brick corbelled windows, corbelled cornice. 2016 storefront with recessed entry. S. W. Hall & Co. Grocers is recorded as an occupant in 1885, with second floor use as the Grand Army of the Republic Hall. Successive uses included a drugstore, a hardware store, a pharmacy and boarding house and a shoe store. In 1935, when the front facade was probably altered, the building had become the Wonder Store, Inc., a department store, and by 1950, it was an annex of Miller's Department Store. The footprint of the building with its distinctive chamfered corner has not changed since indicated as such on the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. (Contributing)
- Style: Italianate Commercial (c.1935).
Applicable Guidelines
Market Square Design Guidelines and Designation Report, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 24, 2001.
See Guidelines- SECRETARY OF INTERIORS STANDARDS
- 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.
- 2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure, or site and its environmental shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when possible.
- 5. Distinctive stylistic features or examples of skilled craftsmanship which characterize a building, structure, or site shall be treated with sensitivity.
- 9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant historical, architectural or cultural materials, and such design is compatible with the size, scale, color, materials, and character of the property, neighborhood or environment.
- 10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structure shall be done in such a manner that if such additions or alterations were to be removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the structure would not be impaired
Meeting Date
October 20, 2016
Market Square H-1
327 Union Ave 37902
Applicant
Sharif Sharif Harb
Owner David David Brown - Janelle Godeaux (property manager) Janelle Godeaux (property manager)
