Level II: Market Square H-1
5-F-20-HZ
Recommendations will be available 1 week prior to the meeting.
Applicant Request
Awning or canopy- Removal of existing canvas awning on façade and installation of metal awning. Metal, standing-seam awning will be installed on existing framing for canvas awning; size, shape, profile, and placement of new awning will be identical to existing. Proposed awning will be 4' tall at its highest point, approximately 18" tall at the most shallow height of awning, and 10' deep. Like existing awning, the proposed awning is located below the transom windows and extends the length of the first four pilasters on 4 Market Square's storefront.
- Scope of work also includes replacement in-kind of rotten wood trim along the fascia on the storefront system.
Market Square H-1
- Style: Neoclassical Commercial, c.1935.
- Miller's Annex: Three story, four bay, brick with limestone trim and sills, altered cornice has replaced elaborate pressed metal cornice. Pilasters dividing bays of upper stories. c. 1970 storefront. Wood windows date to 2007.
- Style: Neoclassical Commercial, c.1935.
Applicable Guidelines
Market Square Design Guidelines and Designation Report, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 24, 2001.
See Guidelines- E. Awnings.
- 1. Awnings were often used on storefronts. Early photographs of Market Square may be consulted to learn their design.
- 2. Awnings shall be attached to the building above the display windows and below the storefront cornice or sign panel.
- 3. Awnings shall reinforce the frame of the storefront without covering the space between the second story window sills and the storefront cornice, or the piers.
- 4. A standard street level awning should project four to seven feet from the building and should be about seven feet above the sidewalk.
- SOI Standards for Rehabilitation
- 9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant historical, architectural or cultural materials, and such design is compatible with the size, scale, color, materials, and character of the property, neighborhood or environment.
- 10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structure shall be done in such a manner that if such additions or alterations were to be removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the structure would not be impaired.
Meeting Date
May 21, 2020
COA Expires June 12, 2023
Market Square H-1
4 Market Square 37902
Applicant
Jim Jim Klonaris
Owner 4 Market Square, LLC
