Recommendation
Staff recommends denial with prejudice of the installed windows, enclosed window, removed window trim, and installed siding. The applicant should re-apply to the Historic Zoning Commission with new proposed windows that meet the ONK neighborhood design guidelines, including the window openings that have been enclosed, select a revised design and material for the window trim, and select a new siding material that better reflects the existing. Staff recommends denial of the proposed door.Staff recommends after-the-fact approval of the chimney removal and the new deck.
Applicant Request
Deck; Doors; Masonry repair/painting; Material changes; Porch; Siding; Windows- After-the-fact review of major exterior rehabilitation. All work below has already been initiated or completed.
- Removal of all original wood windows. Based on Streetview images and past real estate listings, the house's windows included double-hung wood 3/1 and 4/1s, double-hung wood 2/2s, and eight-light wood casement windows on the façade's first story. All windows included true divided lights.
- Installation of new vinyl windows. Vinyl windows include multi-light, grid-between-the-glass windows and single-hung, 3/1, grid-between the glass windows on the façade, and 1/1 vinyl single-hung windows on side and rear elevations.
- Enclosure of one second-story window on the right side elevation.
- Removal of original wood window trim, installation of flat window trim of an unknown material.
- Removal of patches of existing, faux-grained, asbestos shingle siding; installation in patches of smooth-finished fiber cement siding.
- Chimney removal. Stucco-clad chimney on the front roof slope was removed sometime between February 2024 and February 2026.
- New rear deck. New wood deck features square posts with round metal guardrails.
- Not completed but requested: proposed replacement of exterior door with a fiberglass, .75 light door with simulated divided lights.
Old North Knoxville H
- Style: Folk Victorian with Craftsman and Colonial Revival influences, c.1915
- Two-story frame residence with a side-gable roof, an exterior of asbestos shingles, and a brick foundation. Windows include double-hung 3/1, 4/1 and 8-light casement windows.
- Style: Folk Victorian with Craftsman and Colonial Revival influences, c.1915
Applicable Guidelines
Old North Knoxville Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on November 25, 2004.
See Guidelines- B. Windows
- 1. Original windows shall be reused if possible. It will be much less expensive and much better historically to retain the original windows, and it is inappropriate to replace them with new windows that differ in size, material or pane division.
- 2. If replacement windows are necessary, they shall be the same overall size as the originals, with the same pane division and the same muntin depth, width and profile. They shall be the same materials as the original windows, which were generally wood.
- 3. True divided lights shall be used in replacement window sashes with more than one pane.
- 6. Windows may not be blocked in. They must retain the full height and width of the original opening.
- D. Entrances
- 2. Contemporary interpretations of stained glass or etched glass entry doors are usually inappropriate.
- 3. It may be appropriate to design or construct a new entrance if the historic one is completely missing. Any restoration shall be based on historical, pictorial, or physical documentation, if available. It shall be compatible with the historic character of the building or with adjacent buildings.
- 4. A replacement entrance shall not create a false historic appearance. A new entrance or porch must be compatible in size, scale, or material.
- E. Wood Wall Coverings
- 1. Synthetic siding is inappropriate and is not allowed either as replacement siding on existing buildings or new siding in new construction.
- 3. Replacement siding must duplicate the original. Trim and patterned shingles that must be replaced must also duplicate the original material.
- 12. If artificial siding is present on any elevation of a building and must be removed in order to repair the building structurally, it can be replaced on the building if no more than 49% of any elevation's artificial siding is removed. If 50% of the artificial siding on any elevation is removed for repair, it cannot be replaced.
- F. Masonry
- 4. Identify and preserve masonry features that define the historic character of the building, including walls, railings, foundations, chimneys, columns and piers, cornice and door and window pediments.
- 5. Replace an entire masonry feature that is too deteriorated to repair. Use the remaining physical evidence to guide the new work, and match new to old. Examples can include large sections of a wall, a cornice, balustrade, columns, stairways or chimneyss.
Meeting Date
April 16, 2026
Old North Knoxville H
1520 Fremont Place 37917
Applicant
Amanda Furlow
Owner Charity Honeycutt
