Historic Zoning Commission

N/A: Level II

2-G-12-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Replacement/repair/addition of features

Fixed-glass enclosure of the second floor roof deck area on east addition. The butt-joined glass enclosure will be installed over the existing modern railing and pickets, along with slider windows installed from the top of the railing to the bottom of the roof structure. The rear unfinished metal fire escape door on the second level will be replaced with a white-paneled metal door.

Site Info

Baker-Peters-Rogers House. Two-story running bond brick with full-façade height Doric columns. Symmetrical plan with two interior end chimneys. Side-gabled roof with later one-story flat-roofed east addition. Three gabled roof dormers with Palladian-type windows and returned cornices.

The existing deck is located on the roof of an east addition and has modern-era, noncontributing white metal picket railing. A wood and aluminum post structure was later-added on top of the railing to carry a metal roof. The roof deck can be seen from two public rights of ways since the property is a corner lot. The noncontributing rear metal door on the second level may also be seen from the r-o-w. Staff believes that the features impacted are noncontributing and that he proposal therefore meets the Secretary of Interior's Standards.

Secretary of Interior's Standards:

9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not be discouraged when
such alterations and additions do not destroy significant historical, architectural or cultural materials,
and such design is compatible with the size, scale, color, materials, and character of the property,
neighborhood or environment.

10. Wherever 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 not be impaired.