Historic Zoning Commission

Market Square H-1: Level II

1-C-08-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Replacement/repair

Install weather camera on roof of building.

Site Info

McBath Brothers - Drake, Perkey, Cullinan Building. Two story three bay brick with arched second story windows with contrasting stone keystones, sprinters and sills. Pressed metal bracketed cornice with corbelled brick below cornice. Altered storefront. The building was originally built as three storefronts. #11 was first occupied by W. H. Drake & Co., and then used as a grocery operated by John Lichtenwanger from 1890 to 1920 when it became a merchandise store run by Ira Watson & Co. #13 was operated as McBath Brothers Dry Goods, Notions and Grocery in 1877. It was operated as a saloon by L.A.M. Perkey in 1885 with a watch and clock store run by J. A. Lancaster. There were a later succession of uses that included a grocery, brick man, dry goods, harness makers, hardware store, restaurant and then as a dry goods store in 1935 operated by Landston's, Inc. and finally by Ira A. Watson & Co. #15 was a saloon owned by Michael Cullinan in 1880, which expanded to #17 from 1886 to 1905. Clothing and shoe stores, Market Square Billiards and then Snyder's Dry Goods and Department Store continued until it became a part of Ira A. Watson & Company.

The camera and its support are not a structural modification and will be easily removable in the future. The Secretary of Interior's Standards, which form the foundation of the Market Square Design Guidelines, provide that "Whenever possible, new additions or alterations to structure shall be done in such a manner that if such additions or alterations were to be removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired. (Standard #10).