5-O-08-HZ

Level III: Market Square H-1

Other - DO NOT ISSUE

Recommendation

APPROVE cornice, sign board and; APPROVE concept of third floor addition. The brick repair and sign boards are consistent with adopted design guidelines. The roof addition has been modified to be less visible from Market Square.

Applicant Request

Siding

- 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. Addition has been modified from initial submission (withdrawn at 4/17/2008 meeting) to step back from front parapet walls 19'11". Addition materials have not been determined and will need to be reviewed separately by HZC, but are thought to be like contemporary storefront construction with black metal structure with glass inserts and top cornice overhang of approximately 12" to provide weather and sun protection. The approximate height of the addition on 16-18 and 20 is 11' taller than the roof elevation of 18-20 and 8' taller than the top of the parapet. The rooftop addition height proposed for 22 Market is approximately 3'6" lower than that for 16-18-20 Market for a 4-5' elevation greater than the parapet walls.

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.

Applicable Guidelines

Market Square Design Guidelines and Designation Report, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 24, 2001.

See Guidelines

Meeting Date

May 15, 2008

Market Square H-1

18 Market Square

Applicant / Owner

Jason DeBord, Cardinal Investment Properties. LTD

Case History

Date Filed

May 5, 2008

Date Heard