6-G-04-HZ

: Market Square H-1

Approved

Recommendation

APPROVE Certificate 060304MKT. Sign design includes a flush-mounted signboard at the height where the transom would have begun, a hanging sign (base at 9'7") and a directory on the storefront next to the entry.

Applicant Request

Signs

- Level I Certificate: Install window and hanging signs for new Chamber Partnership office.

Market Square H-1

- Style: Italianate Commercial (c.1875).
  - McBath Brothers/Drake, Perkey, Cullinan Building. One of four storefronts in a two story three bay brick building with arched second story windows with contrasting stone keystones, springers and sills. Pressed metal bracketed cornice with corbelled brick below cornice. Altered storefront, probably changed in c.1960 rework of Market Square and changed again in 2003. The building was original built as three storefronts with #11 first occupied by W. H. Drake & Co., and then used as a grocery operated by John Lichtenwanger from 1890 to 1920 when it became a merchandise store run by Ira Watson & Co. #13 was operated as McBath Brothers Dry Goods, Notions and Grocery in 1877. It was operated as a saloon by L.A.M. Perkay in 1885 with a watch and clock store operated by J.A. Lancaster. There were a succession of uses that included a grocery, brick man, dry goods, harness makers, hardware store, restaurant, and then a dray goods store in 1935 operated by Landston's, Inc. and finally by Ira A. Watson & Co. #15 was noted a s a saloon owned by Michael Cullinan in 1880. Cullinan expanded his saloon to #13 from 1886 to 1905. Later occupants included clothing and shoe stores in 1930, Market Square Billiards and then Snyder's dry goods and department store until it became a part of Watson's.

Applicable Guidelines

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

See Guidelines

Meeting Date

June 17, 2004

COA Expires June 18, 2006

Market Square H-1

17 Market Square

Applicant

Design Innovations/Faris Eid

Owner Greater Knoxville Chamber of Commerce

Case History

Date Filed

June 3, 2004

Date Heard