Historic Zoning Commission

Edgewood-Park City H-1: Level II

6-N-07-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Replacement/repair

Install composite slate (Lamarite) on second story walls of building, to duplicate slate that appears on the second story walls of the Barber catalog illustration of this house.

Site Info

George Barber designed residence, appearing as Design No. 65B in New Model Dwellings and How to Build Them (D. D. Reamer residence). Two and one-half story brick with brick belt course and water table. Hip roof with lower cross gables, asphalt shingle roof covering, ornate bargeboard in gable. One story one bay altered front porch and second story balcony with spindle work balustrade. Double hung segmental arched windows (some filled in and some converted to doors) with two rows of radiating voisseurs. Patterned brick belt course. Eastlake stained glass windows. Brick foundation. Irregular plan. Altered.

Original appearance included a first floor half porch that fronted paired windows to the east of the entry, a gabled portico with bargeboard and trim at the entry, an octagonal turret behind the front entrance, a balconet fronting the turret and over the front porch, balconies that flanked the second floor rounded window, the third floor balconet still appearing on the front façade, and elaborate bargeboard and spindle work.

Design Guidelines for Edgewood-Park City allow the use of synthetic materials on new construction, provided they duplicate the appearance of the original (pg. 23, Walls Coverings, #3). In the case of 1618 Washington, prior rehabilitation left no original material on the side walls of the building; the use of Lamarite will not involve the removal of original remnants and is consistent with the guidelines where no original materials remain.