Historic Zoning Commission

Market Square H-1: Level II

1-I-07-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Replacement/repair

Install awning across facades of 1, 3 & 5 Market Square. Awning is shelf awning with flat valance, 10' deep, 7 ' tall, and 75' wide (includes 3 facades). MODIFIED AT HZC MEETING TO BE THREE SEPARATE AWNINGS, EACH RESPECTING THE BUILDING BAYS, INSTEAD OF ONE CONTINUOUS AWNING.

Site Info

Peter Kern Building. Three story, three bay brick building with nearly identical facades. Bracketed ornamental metal cornice. Segmental arched replacement windows. Ornamental metal window hoods. Ornamental brick strong course between second and third stories. Applied keystones above windows. Metal storefront installed in 2004 with transoms and bulkheads suggested by metal bands.

A modification of the awning design to three separate awnings, fitting within the bay divisions of the storefronts (three bays of three windows each) and each approximately 24 1/2' long rather than 75' long would result in awnings that are consistent with the adopted design guidelines. As submitted, the proposed awning is not consistent with the design guidelines.

The Market Square Design Guidelines call for awnings that "reinforce the frame of the storefront without covering the space between the second story window sills and the storefront cornice, or the piers." The proposed awning is a shelf awning with a flat valance, as recommended in the design guidelines. Its height and spacing are appropriate. A division into three units, rather than one continuous 75' length, maintains the vertical orientation of the buildings and the individual storefronts without obscuring them.