Historic Zoning Commission

Market Square H-1: Level I

2-K-10-HZ

Applicant Request

Level I. Standard repair

Site Info

Ziegler Building. Three story brick building with pressed metal bracketed cornice with egg and dart and Greek key elements, decorative pilasters, raised parapet wall. Fenestration filled with brick. C. 1980 storefront.

Metler & Ziegler began business in 1880 as a pork and sausage factory. The name of the establishment changed to Metler, Ziegler & Fanz in 1899, when the building became a meat market. Ignaz Fanz was operating the store solely in 1895, dealing in fish and dried meats, and in 1896 the building was vacant. After that time, it became the Farmer and Tradesman Restaurant, with a boarding house operated by Mrs. J. C. Irwin on the upper stories. In 1900, the Knoxville Abattoir (slaughterhouse) Company operated from the building. It was the East Tennessee Packing Company for a time, sold wholesale produce and by 1929 was a dry goods store, then the Lowe U Armstrong Hardware Store. It housed Woody's Market from 1964 to 1983, and from 1984 to 1999 was a part of Watson's Department Store.

The sign provisions for Market Square call for a maximum size for each tenant's sign of 4 to 6 sq. ft. (IID -2). However, the applicant intends to incorporate signage for four tenants into one sign, with each panel size of approximately 4.4 sq. ft., which is less than that allowed for each tenant under the design guidelines. The maximum signage under the guidelines would be 24 sq. ft.; under this proposal the total area of four signs would be 17.6 sq. ft., considerably less than the signage area if each tenant had individual signs.