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Level II: Fourth And Gill H-1

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Recommendation
APPROVAL to replace front door, balcony balustrade & 2 inappropriate windows on n. side w/wood 1/1 double-hung windows. Add three wood 1/1 double-hung windows on rear & fill in late rear window opening. Add lattice brickwork@front porch foundation.
Applicant Request
Architectural feature; Doors; Porch elements; Roofing; Storm windows or doors; Windows
    • Level I
    • 1) Repair or replace in-kind as necessary the following items which are all of wood:
    • siding, windows, soffit, eaves, column bases; rear access door to basement; tongue-and- groove porch floor boards, beadboard ceilings on front porches; north-side porch stairs; capitals on front porches and porte cochere.
    • 2) Repoint mortar as necessary using low-Portland content mortar and clean masonry as necessary. Rebuild chimney tops with corbelling (all using Preservation Brief # 2).
    • 3) Reroof house and carport in-kind with asphalt shingles.
    • 4) Remove non-original plywood roof enclosure from porte cochere.
    • 5) Remove fire escape and its concrete base from rear elevation.
    • 6) Jack-up sinking porch columns.
    • 7) Repair storm windows as necessary, with eventual replacement with wood storm windows.
    • 8) Install sconces to either side of front entry door. Install porch ceiling lights and ceiling fans on front porch and balcony.
    • Level II
    • 1) Replace shingled balustrade (installed in mid-1990s) with solid weatherboarded panel ( not approved). Further changes to the 2nd-story porch will be detailed at a later date.
    • 2) Replace existing non-original windows on rear and side elevations (some are storm windows w/out window sashes, some sliding windows) with wood one-over-one double-hung windows.
    • 3) Add wood one-over-one double-hung triple window on rear elevation (under existing metal stairway).
    • 4) Fill in existing non-original first-floor rear window opening and patch with siding to match.
    • 5) Install antique quarter-sawn oak front first-story entry doorw/full or half-view beveled glass (final desgn approved by staff).
    • 6) Remove exising filled-in window panels on porch foundation and fill in openings with lattice-patterned brickwork.
Fourth and Gill H-1
    • Style: Neoclassical with Queen Anne influence. (c.1900)
      • Two-story frame with weatherboard wall covering. Hip roof with lower front gables, gabled side dormers, asphalt shingle and aluminum siding wall covering (sides and rear) and applied sunburst on side gables, sawn wood brackets. One -over -one double-hung windows with diagonal muntins on first floor transom and sidelights and second- story façade windows. One-story front and sides u-shaped wrap around porch with centered balcony on second story, round wood columns with Doric capitals, applied bead board panels between brick piers, concrete straight buttresses at front steps, turned spindled balustrade on first story and shingled balustrade on balcony, some remaining Scamozzi capitals on columns. Projecting one-story bay on front elevation. Modified porte cochere at north elevation with brick piers, shed roof and square columns. Enclosed rear porches.
Applicable Guidelines
Fourth and Gill Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on April 20, 1999 and June 29, 1999.
See Guidelines
Meeting Date
August 16, 2012
COA Expires August 16, 2014
Fourth and Gill H-1
930 Luttrell St 37917
Applicant
Scott Scott Schimmel
Owner Scott Scott Schimmmel

Case History

Date Filed
August 7, 2012
Date Heard
August 16, 2012

Case History