Historic Zoning Commission

Market Square H-1: Level I/II

4-R-08-HZ

Staff Recommendation

APPROVE Certificate No. 40308MKT. Proposed sign and canopy are consistent with adopted design guidelines.


Applicant Request

Level I: Standard Repair & Level II: Major Structural repair & replacement
Awning or canopy; Signs

Install signboard above storefront, 2'6" by 10), non illuminated, and black awning with downlights, no signage or logos, over width of storefront between piers (20'2") and 6' deep with greater depth at inset door.


Site Info

Italianate Commercial (c.1880).

G. W. Albers Drug Store. Two story brick, elaborate pressed metal cornice with brackets and modillions and raised central arch (and large molded tin mortar and pestle at center of arch since removed), rowlock arched second story windows, storefront altered. Albers Drug Store first occupied the building, which then housed a succession of drug stores until it became a part of Watson's in 1935.


See Section II.D.1., which allows a sign board located below the second story window sills and above the storefront, and II.E.2.-4, which allows canopies above the display windows and below the storefront cornice or sign panel, between the piers.

Applicant

John L. John L. Sanders - Sanders Pace Architecture Sanders Pace Architecture


Location Knoxville
14 Market Square

Owner
Allen Grady