9-A-22-HZ

Level II: Edgewood-Park City H

Approved With Conditions

Recommendation

Staff recommends approval of Certificate 9-A-22-HZ, subject to the following conditions: 1) applicant to select a revised secondary door to meet the design guidelines, with approval by staff; 2) applicant to submit final specifications for new porch columns to staff for approval.

Applicant Request

- Exterior rehabilitation, including revisions to front porch and rear elevation, and new rear deck.
- Rear elevation work: leftmost window to be shifted towards the right side of the rear elevation (existing window to be retained). New door (six-panel steel door) to be located at the center of the rear elevation. Openings to be infilled with new wood lap siding to match existing.
- New 8' deep wood deck to extend the full length of the rear elevation. Wood deck to feature square balusters and five evenly-spaced 6 by 6 posts.
- Porch: removal of non-historic wrought iron columns and installation of square wood posts with chamfered tops and bottoms, to reflect provided example at adjacent 2100 Jefferson Ave.
- Conditions of approval per 9.15.2022 HZC meeting:
- 1) applicant to select a revised secondary door to meet the design guidelines, with approval by staff;
- 2) applicant to submit final specifications for new porch columns to staff for approval;
- 3) rear elevation porch roof to be elevated 1-2' to achieve proper clearances for rear door.

Edgewood-Park City H

- Style: Queen Anne cottage, c.1910
  - One-story frame residence with a hipped roof with gables projecting to the front, clad in asphalt shingles. Exterior is clad in wood lap siding and hosue rests on a stuccoed brick foundation. Partial-width, hipped roof porch. Two interior brick chimneys.

Applicable Guidelines

Edgewood-Park City Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on July 29, 1997.

- Porches
- 1. Porches on historic houses shall be repaired or replicated using wood materials for ceilings and floors, balustrades, posts and columns that duplicate the original size and design. Reconstruction of the documented original porch is appropriate.
- 3. New buildings constructed in Edgewood-Park City must contain front porches large enough to provide seating. The proportion of the porches to the front facades is to be consistent with the historic porches in the neighborhood. Details such as columns, posts, piers, balustrades, and porch flooring and ceilings will be built with materials that are consistent in appearance with historic materials.
- Entrances
- 2. It may be appropriate to design or construct a new entrance if the historic one is missing. Any restoration shall be based on historical, pictorial, and physical documentation and be compatible with the historic character of the building.
- 3. A replacement entrance must not create a false historic appearance. A new entrance shall be compatible in size, scale, materials, and color.
- 5. Service or rear entrances shall not be altered to make them appear more formal by adding paneled doors, fanlights, or sidelights.
- 6. Secondary entrances shall be compatible with the originals in size, scale, and materials.
- Windows
- 1. Reuse original windows. It will be much less expensive and much better historically to retain the original windows.
- 6. It can be appropriate to design and install additional windows on the rear or another secondary elevation.

See Guidelines

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