Level II: Market Square H-1
3-E-19-HZ
Applicant Request
Additions; Other: rooftop structure- After-th-fact review of the construction of a shed-roofed structure at approximately 8 feet high and 43 feet long with roof sheathed in corrugated metal with enclosed soffit (~10 inches thick). The structure will be sheathed in stucco and situated approxiately 80 feet back from the front parapet façade of the building. Visibility of the structure ranges from approximately 3 feet to 4 feet when standing against the opposite (west) façades of Market Square. The range of visibility reduces to approximately one foot when standing at the edge of the sidewalk café at 15 Market Square.
Market Square H-1
- 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
Market Square Design Guidelines and Designation Report, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 24, 2001.
See Guidelines- SECRETARY OF INTERIORS STANDARDS
- 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, Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings:
- "Rooftop additions are almost never appropriate for buildings that are less than four stories high."
- " . . . Recommend that 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 is provided in the information package.)
