12-E-08-HZ

Level II: Ft. Sanders NC-1

Approved

Recommendation

APPROVE Certificate No 120308FTS. Proposed changes will improve the appearance of the building and the street, removing exterior fire stairs and reintroducing an open front porch to the building.

Applicant Request

- Remove enclosed front porch, projecting bay on mansard roofed front-facing dormer, and fire stairs on both side elevations. Rebuild front façade with original depth front porch with shed roof supported by square columns with bases and top molding, wrought metal railing on side elevations, and flat plane front wall of dormer with two windows. Paired entrance doors from front porch to each duplex unit, flanked by small rectangular windows on façade. Remove aluminum siding and replace with vinyl siding, exposing belt course on side elevations and using beveled siding of wider reveal, or material mimicking wood shingles, on top story. Replace all windows with appropriately sized windows. Incorporate covered deck at first floor elevation on rear elevation.

Ft. Sanders NC-1

- Style: Altered Craftsman (1906)
  - One and one-half story frame with artificial siding. Side gable roof with central gambrel shaped front dormer with projecting bay, asphalt shingle covering. Replacement windows. One story fully enclosed front porch. Interior offset brick chimney. Brick foundation. Irregular plan.

Applicable Guidelines

Fort Sanders NC-1, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on September 13, 2000.

See Guidelines

Meeting Date

December 18, 2008

COA Expires December 18, 2010

Ft. Sanders NC-1

1506 Laurel Ave

Applicant / Owner

Neely Realty Co. (Michael Harding)

Case History

Date Filed

December 3, 2008

Date Heard