Level II: Market Square H-1
7-M-05-HZ
Approved
Recommendation
APPROVE Certificate No. 70705MKT. Proposed improvements will substitute for non-contributing storefront, and are designed to suggest appropriately sized elements of a Victorian-era storefront.Applicant Request
Other: front and rear facades- Install wrought iron gates on front and rear facades with integrated transoms and signage, trim on columns, hanging sign 14"x24", demolishing current, inappropriate storefront and rear façade on ground floor.
Market Square H-1
- Style: Victorian Vernacular Commercial (c.1880)
- W. H. Burroughs Building. Two story brick building with three bays, arched second story windows, corbelled arched window hoods with repalcement sashes and a corbelled brick cornice. Altered c. 1980 storefront.
- W. H. Burroughs was a commission merchant, and the first occupant discovered at this address. After 1890, the building was occupied by a business selling stoves, and in 1905 by War Eagle Laundry. In 1910, a restaurant and boarding house shared the building, and after that it was a shoe store, a wholesale produce store, and a seed store, a hardware store, and in 1965, Snyder's department store. By the 1980's, the building was a part of Watson's Department Store.
Applicable Guidelines
Market Square Design Guidelines and Designation Report, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 24, 2001.
See GuidelinesMeeting Date
July 21, 2005
COA Expires July 21, 2007
Market Square H-1
23 Market Square 37902
Applicant
Ross Fowler Architecture/Landscape Architecture
Owner David Dewhirst & Michael Kennedy
Case History
Date Filed
July 7, 2005
Date Heard
