Level II: Bijou Theatre Individual H Landmark
7-C-20-HZ
Approved
Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of the work as proposed, with the following conditions: 1) the masonry repair project utilize mortar and replacement bricks consistent with the historic structure; 2) when possible, the anchors installed to support the canopy attempt to be installed into mortar joints instead of new holes in bricks.Applicant Request
Awning or canopy; Masonry repair/painting; Other: Exterior lights- All work to be completed on north (side) elevation fronting Cumberland Avenue. Removal of existing fabric canopy above staircase; and removal of copper canopy above ground-level entry.
- Canopies over doors: installation of four bronze-colored canopies over egress doors on side elevations; canopies will project 4' max from the masonry wall, with an approximately 14" eave overhang on each side of the door. Canopies over doors will have a hipped roof with a curved design, 1" standing seam, an 8" tall ogee fascia, and a flush soffit.
- Canopy over stairs: in place of existing canvas canopy, a powder-coated, bronze colored aluminum canopy will extend from the second-story entry, northwards, down to the first-story entry. The flat canopy will extend 4' from the exterior wall and feature a 12" tall custom fascia with a flush soffit. Canopy will connect to walls with 1.5" by 1.5" square metal supports and triangular brackets.
- Exterior lighting: new copper light fixtures to be installed in place of existing lights under stair canopy. Two new half-round lights to be installed in place of existing door lights.
- Basic repairs: repair to existing metal side elevation doors, including patching holes, scraping, sealing, and painting. Masonry repointing (or replacement in-kind in small sections) as needed at anchor points for canopy attachments to brick wall.
Bijou Theatre Individual H Landmark
- Style: Georgian; Federal; Commercial Vernacular. (c.1816; 1837; c.1900-1909)
- The Lamar House/Bijou Theatre was built as a private residence, the Lamar House, sometime before 1816, and was designed as a late Georgian/early Federal style building. In 1837, a major regrading of Gay Street converted the present street-level entrance from a basement entrance to the building. A photograph from that era shows six over six sash windows, a standing seam metal roof, and a portico and balcony, with a pediment at the attic story and a standing seam metal gable roof. Changes made c.1900-1909 resulted in the current flat roof and overhanging cornice with modillions, the alternating arched and triangular window hoods and the details of the Gay Street entrance, as well as internal changes to the floor plan.
- Style: Georgian; Federal; Commercial Vernacular. (c.1816; 1837; c.1900-1909)
Applicable Guidelines
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings.
See Guidelines- 2. The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
- 3. Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken.
- 9. New additions, exterior alterations or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work will be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment.
- 10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.
- 2. The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
Meeting Date
July 16, 2020
COA Expires July 16, 2023
Bijou Theatre Individual H Landmark
803 S. Gay St. 37902
Applicant
Kelly Kelly Wilson - Baird & Wilson Sheetmetal, Inc. Baird & Wilson Sheetmetal, Inc.
Owner Bijou Theatre center
