5-C-21-HZ

Level II: Edgewood-Park City H

Approved With Conditions

Recommendation

Staff recommends approval of the project as submitted, with the condition that all efforts be taken to keep the existing windows intact during removal and the windows be donated to an architectural salvage shop or other venue where the windows could be reused in a similar historic house.

Applicant Request

Siding; Windows

- Lead-based paint abatement project initiated by City of Knoxville Community Development. Majority of work described in work write-up would not require COA (scraping paint, cleaning and stabilizing exterior elements, and painting), retaining existing exterior elements.
- Level 1 scopes of work: replacement of existing wood louvered gable vents with new louvered vents in same size, materials, and design as existing.
- Level 2 scope of work: replacement of 13 exterior windows with new windows. Windows to be replaced include 11 three-over-one, double-hung wood windows; 1 one-over-one, double-hung wood window (rear elevation); and 1 single-light fixed window (on semi-enclosed porch). Metal security bars will be removed. Exterior wood trim to be repaired and retained.
- Proposed replacement windows are Andersen Fibrex (composite) material, simulated divided light windows with muntins on the exterior and interior. The replacement windows will be three-over-one, maintaining the same pane division and muntin style, and will be the same size as the existing, installed in the same fenestrations with no additional enclosure.
- Conditions of approval per 5/20/21 HZC meeting: 1) all efforts be taken to keep the existing windows intact during removal and the windows be donated to an architectural salvage shop or other venue where the windows could be reused in a similar historic house.

Edgewood-Park City H

- Style: Craftsman, c.1915
  - One-story residence with a side-gable roof clad in asphalt shingles, an exterior of wood weatherboard siding, and a brick foundation. A partial-width, front-gable roof porch projects from the left half of the façade, supported by tapered wood columns on brick piers. Windows are three-over-one, double-hung wood sash. Central brick chimney.

Applicable Guidelines

Edgewood-Park City Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 29, 1997.

- Windows
  - 1. Reuse original windows. It will be much less expensive and much better historically to retain the original windows.
  - 3. If replacement windows are necessary, they must be the same overall size as the originals, with the same pane division, and the same muntin style and exterior depth, width, and profile. Thermal sash windows that use false muntins are not acceptable.
  - 4. Windows shall not be replaced with fixed thermal glazing or be made inoperable.
  - 5. Tinted or reflective glass shall not be used on primary or other important elevations. LO-E glass, which selectively blocks ultraviolet light, is allowed.
  - 7. Historic windows shall not be blocked in. If ceilngs have dropped, provide a setback to allow for the full height of the original window openings. Do not cut across an existing window with a new floor or ceiling, so that the original appearance of the window is changed.
  - 8. Reuse existing, serviceable window hardware.

See Guidelines

Meeting Date