Level I: Market Square H-1
2-K-10-HZ
Approved
Recommendation
APPROVE Certificate No. 20410MKT because it creates a reduction in the total area of signs for the building.Applicant Request
SignsMarket Square H-1
- Style: Neoclassical Commercial (c.1880)
- Ziegler Building. Three story brick building with pressed metal bracketed cornice with egg and dart and Greek key elements, decorative pilasters, raised parapet wall. Fenestration filled with brick. C. 1980 storefront.
- Metler & Ziegler began business in 1880 as a pork and sausage factory. The name of the establishment changed to Metler, Ziegler & Fanz in 1899, when the building became a meat market. Ignaz Fanz was operating the store solely in 1895, dealing in fish and dried meats, and in 1896 the building was vacant. After that time, it became the Farmer and Tradesman Restaurant, with a boarding house operated by Mrs. J. C. Irwin on the upper stories. In 1900, the Knoxville Abattoir (slaughterhouse) Company operated from the building. It was the East Tennessee Packing Company for a time, sold wholesale produce and by 1929 was a dry goods store, then the Lowe U Armstrong Hardware Store. It housed Woody's Market from 1964 to 1983, and from 1984 to 1999 was a part of Watson's Department Store.
Applicable Guidelines
Market Square Design Guidelines and Designation Report, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 24, 2001.
See Guidelines
