Historic Zoning Commission

Ft. Sanders NC-1: Level IV

11-D-05-HZ

Applicant Request

Level IV. Demolition or relocation of contributing structure

Requesting total demolition because of house's extremely deteriorated condition; parcel to become parking lot for residents on 11th Street.

Site Info

Two story frame with artificial siding. Hip roof with lower cross gables and asphalt shingle roof covering. One over one double hung windows, paired at second story above front entry. Original doors. One story two-thirds front porch with hipped roof, partially enclosed, with square wood columns with Doric capitals on unenclosed portion. Brick foundation. Interior offset corbelled brick chimney at the interior rear, north side of the home.

According to documentation presented at the Historic Zoning Commission hearing on October 21, 1999, JPI Development, which owned 219 12th, committed to the Historic Ft. Sanders Neighborhood Association to make this property a pilot project with the Fort Sanders Community, intended to establish a foundation of development and maintain a sensitivity to the community's original historic structures. During the course of the next year, JPI did apply for a Certificate of Appropriateness to remove the artificial siding and begin an exterior restoration; it appears that no work was completed pursuant to that application.

The history of the house has not been altered. The appearance and condition of the house, while they have not been improved over the intervening years, are not noticeably different than was the condition at the time of designation. The agreement with the Ft. Sanders community and the preservation community, which allowed JPI to build, and eventually sell its properties to the current owners, should not be ignored in favor of demolition of an historic building designated at the owner's request, and not appreciably changed since that designation.