Level II: Market Square H-1

6-P-07-HZ

Approved

Recommendation
APPROVE Certificate 60707MKT. Proposed alterations are consistent with Market Square design guidelines and take advantage of existing balcony without altering overall appearance of storefront.

Applicant Request
Doors; Masonry repair/painting; Storm windows or doors; Windows; Other: balcony wall
    • Replace storefront wall, windows and doors, using approximately the same horizontal bulkhead, transom and storefront divisions but introducing additional trim elements and creating a less contemporary look, with wood paneled bulkheads, more elaborate trim at central door, full view doors with paneled bottom rails, framing storefront windows with anodized aluminum or wooden elements; refine sign board, introducing new corbels and dentils to mimic the top cornice details; recess the second story balcony wall 7' behind the existing location, reusing the existing arched transoms and windows with option of reusing the existing doors or installing paired French doors with full view glass, and retaining the existing balcony railing; install new stone base on first floor ends to match detail on second story balcony columns.

Market Square H-1
    • Style: Neoclassical Commercial (c.1890)
      • W. H. Belcher Building. Two story brick with second story loggia. Recessed double leaf full view doors with arched glass transoms and wrought iron railing on second story. Acanthus leaf brackets on elaborate pressed metal cornice and on brackets of loggia columns. Corner pilasters. Modified storefront.

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, 2007
COA Expires June 21, 2009

Market Square H-1
7 Market Square 37902

Applicant
Donna Covert, Design Innovation Architects
Owner Jim & Janet Hasler

Case History

Date Filed
June 7, 2007

Date Heard
June 21, 2007

Case History