6-I-12-HZ

Level II: Market Square H-1

Approved

Recommendation

Custom paint lineal sign on stucco band (3-1/2" tall) above storefront on both facades of building with logo square painted on center canted section (Mkt Sq & Union Ave.) Install black gooseneck lighting over the signboard on each side of building.

Applicant Request

Signs

- Custom paint lineal sign on stucco band (3 1/2" tall) above storefront on both facades of building with square logo (crest) painted on center canted section (Mkt Square and Union Ave.) Install black gooseneck lighting over the signboard on each side of building.

Market Square H-1

- Style: Vernacular Commercial (c.1935).
  - S. W. Hall & Co. Building. Two story, threebay, brick building with modern single pane windows on front facade, chamfered corner. Two story Italianate Commercial rear portion with access from Union Avenue, arched brick corbelled indows, corbelled cornice. c. 1950 storefront with recessed entry. (C) S. W. Hall & Co. Grocers is ecorded as an occupant in 1885, with second floor use as the Grand Army of the Republic Hall.
  - Successive uses included a drugstore, a hardware store, a pharmacy and boarding house and a shoe
  - store. In 1935, when the front facade was probably altered, the building had become the Wonder
  - Store, Inc., a department store, and by 1950, it was an annex of Miller's Department Store. The footprint of the
  - building with its distinctive chamfered corner has not changed on the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map.

Applicable Guidelines

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

See Guidelines

Meeting Date

June 21, 2012

COA Expires June 22, 2014

Market Square H-1

2 Market Square 37902

Applicant

Courtney Courtney Garrison

Owner Pat Pat McHugh

Case History

Date Filed

June 6, 2012

Date Heard