Level III: Market Square H-1
4-N-08-HZ
Denied (Withdrawn)
Recommendation
APPROVE sign board requests of Certificate No. 40208MKT; DENY third floor addition. The requests for brick and cornice repair and installation of sign boards are consistent with adopted design guidelines. The third floor addition is not consistent.Applicant Request
Masonry repair/painting; Roofing; Signs; Skylights or solar collectors; Windows; Other: 3rd Floor Addition- Repair existing brick facades where necessary, with replacement brick and mortar to match existing; repair existing window sills if necessary; install sign board on #16 in keeping with cornice of #18 & #20, smaller in scale and spanning between outer pilasters above storefront and below window sills; repair existing cornice at #18 & #20; install new sign board on #22, spanning between outermost pilasters and filling in space above storefront and below window sills, with signage to be relocated to sign board areas; review in concept one story rooftop addition.
Market Square H-1
- Style: Victorian Vernacular and Neoclassical. (see below)
- 16 Market Square: Caldwell Building (1910). Neoclassical Commercial. Two story brick building with paired fixed glass windows with transoms and altered storefront. The Caldwell Building was occupied by Caldwell's Department Store, then drug stores and in 1965, Bower's Department Store.
- 18, 20 Market Square: Biddle & Moulden Building (c.1895). Neoclassical Commercial. Two story brick with engaged Tuscan pilasters forming four bays on second floor. Second story windows are fixed panes with transoms and corbelled brick topping windows. Storefront altered. Following its probable construction in c.1895 as a department store operated by Biddle & Moulden, this building was occupied as a clothing or department store until it closed in the 1980s.
- 22 Market Square: Flenniken Strong Building (1885). Italianate Commercial. Two story building, with an altered third bay (#26). Arched second story windows, corbelled arched window hoods, corbelled brick cornice. Storefront of #24 altered c.1985, while #33 retains much original material. The first occupants of these buildings were two dry goods stores, S. W. Flenniken and Strong & Co. Various clothing and shoe stores continued occupy the buildings until the 1960s, when they housed a tobacco store and a florist.
- Style: Victorian Vernacular and Neoclassical. (see below)
Applicable Guidelines
Market Square Design Guidelines and Designation Report, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 24, 2001.
See GuidelinesMeeting Date
April 17, 2008
Market Square H-1
18 Market Square 37902
Applicant
Michael Brady Inc.
Owner Cardinal Enterprises
Case History
Date Filed
April 2, 2008
Date Heard
