Level II: Edgewood-Park City H-1
6-N-07-HZ
Approved
Recommendation
APPROVE Certificate No. 60507BEDG. Slate was used in the catalog illustration of the plan from which 1618 was derived. No trace of the original material remains, but it seems likely that slate would have been the second story covering of choice.Applicant Request
- Install composite slate (Lamarite) on second story walls of building, to duplicate slate that appears on the second story walls of the Barber catalog illustration of this house.
Edgewood-Park City H-1
- Style: Queen Anne with Eastlake influence (c.1890)
- George Barber designed residence, appearing as Design No. 65B in New Model Dwellings and How to Build Them (D. D. Reamer residence). Two and one-half story brick with brick belt course and water table. Hip roof with lower cross gables, asphalt shingle roof covering, ornate bargeboard in gable. One story one bay altered front porch and second story balcony with spindle work balustrade. Double hung segmental arched windows (some filled in and some converted to doors) with two rows of radiating voisseurs. Patterned brick belt course. Eastlake stained glass windows. Brick foundation. Irregular plan. Altered.
- Original appearance included a first floor half porch that fronted paired windows to the east of the entry, a gabled portico with bargeboard and trim at the entry, an octagonal turret behind the front entrance, a balconet fronting the turret and over the front porch, balconies that flanked the second floor rounded window, the third floor balconet still appearing on the front façade, and elaborate bargeboard and spindle work.
Applicable Guidelines
Edgewood-Park City Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 29, 1997.
See GuidelinesMeeting Date
June 21, 2007
COA Expires June 21, 2009
Edgewood-Park City H-1
1618 Washington Ave
Applicant / Owner
