Level II: Edgewood-Park City H-1
12-D-16-HZ
Applicant Request
Parking lot or driveway paving; Porch elements; Other: Enclose front porch with glass panel system- Remove existing slider windows and replace with picture windows with no dividers. Replace installed knee walls beneath the existing windows with tempered glass windows. Remove sliding glass door and replace with full-view glass door with sidelights on each side. Wood panels would be installed above brick piers to appear as support posts. A wooden balustrade with 2x2 pickets would be installed in location that former balustrade existed. See Exhibit One accompanying this application for a full description of work.
Edgewood-Park City H-1
- Style: Craftsman (c. 1920)
- One-story frame with aluminum siding. Front-gable roof with asphalt shingle covering, kingposts. One-story three-quarter porch with altered front porch with brick columns and sawn wood balustrade. Exterior end brick chimney. Brick foundation. Rectangular plan. Transom over entry. (Contributing)
- Style: Craftsman (c. 1920)
Applicable Guidelines
Edgewood-Park City Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 29, 1997.
See Guidelines- PORCHES
- 1. Porches on historic houses shall be repaired or replicated using wood materials for ceilings and
- floors, balustrades, posts and columns that duplicate the original size and design. Reconstruction
- of the documented original porch is appropriate.
- 2. Porches, particularly porches visible from a street, shall not be enclosed.
- Most of the houses in the Edgewood-Park City Historic District have a porch. Porches
- were a form of air conditioning. They shaded the windows and doors, and provided an
- outdoor room for neighborhood social life before television and radio. They are graceful,
- welcoming and introduce the house to passers-by. They may stretch across the
- full width of the house or wrap around corners. They may even be two story porches,
- with upper story balconies. Enclosing a porch harms the house, detracting from the
- original character and design.
- The individual design elements of the neighborhood porches, with turned wood
- columns, elaborate railings and balusters, heavy wood posts or columns, wood ceiling
- and floors, and sawn wood trim, are all important to the style of the houses. These
- individual details should be repaired and preserved, or reproduced if good documentation
- of the original porch exists.
- SECRETARY OF INTERIORS STANDARDS FOR REHABILITATING HISTORIC BUILDINGS
- 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.
- 3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier appearance shall be discouraged.
- 4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the history and development of a building, structure, or site and its environment. These changes may have acquired significance in their own right, and this significance shall be recognized and respected.
- 5. Distinctive features, finishes and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property shall be preserved.
- 6. Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old design, color, texture, and other visual qualities and, where possible, materials. Replacement or missing features shall be substantiated by documentary, physical or pictorial evidence.
- 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment.
- 10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to a 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
December 15, 2016
Edgewood-Park City H-1
1709 Jefferson Ave 37917
Applicant
Scenic View Sunrooms and Porch Enclosures, Inc. - Greg Crawford Greg Crawford
Owner Helen Helen Jamison
