Approval of installing a double-leafed door since the framing between the two door leafs would create a less prominent vertical division than a single door and fixed panel. The solid vertical framing division would be the same width as that of the existing central double-leafed doors. Denial of dividing the original single-paned right storefront window with the installation of a center mullion since it would unnecessarily create a false sense of history.
Postponed from 12/17/2015 HZC meeting: Replace left storefront window with a single wood-framed glass door and a matching adjacent fixed glass panel (with wood panels below) to mimic the existing pair of central entry doors. Install a mullion in the center of the left storefront to accommodate interior wall and a faux mullion in the middle of the right storefront window to match. Dimensions of muntins, doors and fixed panels as noted on drawings. Install a new step at new door to match the existing step.
The building is a three 1/2-story, three- bay brick commercial building. Engaged rusticated stone pileasters surround wooden storefronts with wooden double-entry doors and glass transoms with wood dentil molding below transoms. Paired 1/1 double-hung windows with stone lintels and sills on second story, paired 1/1 windows with arched transoms and lintels with applied keystones on third story, arcaded cornice with stone imposts, projecting roofline. (C). The building is located within the Southern Terminal and Warehouse and the Jackson Avenue Warehouse National Register historic districts.
1) The building is a contributing structure within the Southern Terminal and Warehouse and the Jackson Avenue Warehouse National Register historic districts.
2) Documentary photos from the Library of Congress of 121, 123 and 120, 122 W. Jackson indicate that the original storefronts flanking double-leafed entry doors were filled with a large single pane of glass and were not originally divided by muntins.
3) The right (east) storefront section of 123 W. Jackson had been altered in years past (based on documentary photographs) by the removal of the transom and a horizontal division in the storefront window.
4) Replacing the west (left) storefront glass with a single door and adjacent fixed panel would require that approximately 15-inches worth ofstructure and door framing would divide the historically single-paned section into two.
5) Replacing the west (left) storefront glass with a pair of double-leafed doors (to match the paired central doors) would eliminate the need for door framing in the middle of the window making a less pronounced central division of the storefront window.
6) The approximate widths of the proposed muntins and framing added to the center of the left storefront window would be 15", and the right storefront muntin, if added, would be 5". The width of the stantion between the center pair of doors is approximately 9". Therefore, the vertical dividing elements of the storefront glazing will not be the same widths.
7) If a pair of double doors were added to the left storefront section, the width of the door frames in the center of the section would be 9", which would match the width of the door frames in the existing central entry.
8) A muntin applied to divide the storefront glass to the east (right) of the main entry to match a new one on the left and for the sake of establishing symmetry would portray a false sense of history.
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