Historic Zoning Commission

Fourth and Gill H-1: Level II

7-G-14-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Major repair or replacement of materials or architectural elements

Replacement of modern overhead garage door containing 3 horizontal windows at top. Install a steel, paneled, windowless overhead garage door.

Site Info

Two-story frame with weatherboard wall covering. Hip roof with gabled front dormer, asphalt shingle roof covering, and engaged square columns on dormer, modillions above balcony, full cornice returns. Replacement windows with Palladian attic vent. One-story full front porch with round wood columns with Doric capitals, abacus spindles in swag pattern in balustrade, bead board ceiling, tongue- and-groove porch floor, and central balcony on second story. Two brick corbelled interior offset chimneys. Stuccoed foundation. Irregular plan. Side portico with embossed brackets. Transom and sidelights at front entries of first and second floors. (Contributing)

Garage (c. 1910) One-story hip roof with weatherboard siding. (Contributing)

1. The hipped roof frame house and garage appear to have been constructed between 1903 and 1917 based on Sanborn maps and given its construction and materials. Some of the characteristics such as the roof shape, eaves, windows and trim mimic those on the house. Both were constructed c. 1910 according to the National Register inventory, in which the garage is listed as a contributing structure (gasoline-powered automobiles achieved dominance by 1910).

2. The front and side facades of the garage are visible from Caswell Street, which it faces.

3. Based on a 2012 file photo of the former overhead garage door, it was a late, paneled design with three horizontal windows across the top.

4. The currently installed overhead metal garage door does not match the former door and does not correspond with the style of the garage or house.

5. Stamped or raised feaux wood-grained steel panels do not adequately simluate wood.