Historic Zoning Commission

Fourth and Gill H-1: Level II

6-A-09-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Replacement/repair

1) Remove side door and replace with wood window, matching design of remaining original windows but smaller, and with siding to match original; 2) Repair or replace in kind, as necessary, siding, soffit, and trim; 3) on rear of house, add French doors on first floor level to access deck; 4) install gutters; 5) remove rear, side stairs that led to second story landing and enclosed rear porch; 6) remove second story rear porch enclosure to open rear porch and install spindled railing with spindles matching originals and remove second story doors finishing with wood siding to match remainder of house; 7) remove metal windows added to basement, replacing most with wood single hung windows and eliminating two windows under stairs, rebrick foundation using soft mortar in accordance with Preservation Brief No. 2; 8) remove metal windows on rear of house and replace with wood double hung windows matching other windows on house; 9) repair garage foundation, removing metal siding that was obscuring it and replacing with concrete block foundation, repairing siding and framing as necessary, and adding new garage door appropriate to style of house.

Per 6/18/2009 meeting, approved items are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9. Item 6 will be considered at later meeting.

Site Info

Two story frame with weatherboard wall covering. Hip roof with lower cross gables, asphalt shingle roof covering. One over one double hung windows. One story full front porch with round columns with Ionic capitals, dentil molding under shed porch roof, tongue and groove floor, beadboard ceiling. Exterior side brick chimney. Brick foundation. Irregular plan. Projecting one story bay on front elevation under porch roof One story rear porch with columns and shed roofed read addition at second story balcony with round wood posts on weatherboard balustrade.

Two story frame garage with metal covering over existing foundation, weatherboard wall covering and gable end roof.

Application includes both existing garage and house. Restoration of exterior is consistent with provisions under Wall Coverings, Wood, pgs. 13 and 14, Porches, pg. 12, Windows, pg. 10 and 11, Masonry, pg. 15,and Entrances, pg. 13. Alterations to existing rear elements will remove inappropriately placed elements that occurred when house was converted to multi-family housing; these elements have not acquired significance.