Historic Zoning Commission

Market Square H-1: Level II

7-M-05-HZ

Applicant Request

Level II. Replacement/repair

Install wrought iron gates on front and rear facades with integrated transoms and signage, trim on columns, hanging sign 14"x24", demolishing current, inappropriate storefront and rear façade on ground floor.

Site Info

W. H. Burroughs Building. Two story brick building with three bays, arched second story windows, corbelled arched window hoods with repalcement sashes and a corbelled brick cornice. Altered c. 1980 storefront.

W. H. Burroughs was a commission merchant, and the first occupant discovered at this address. After 1890, the building was occupied by a business selling stoves, and in 1905 by War Eagle Laundry. In 1910, a restaurant and boarding house shared the building, and after that it was a shoe store, a wholesale produce store, and a seed store, a hardware store, and in 1965, Snyder's department store. By the 1980's, the building was a part of Watson's Department Store.

Elements of the infill design include paired metal doors, divided into three bays that mimic the overlay bay division, with integrated signage in the appropriate position for a signboard. Above them is an open iron grid that mimics the pane division of the prism glass transoms common to Market Square. The hanging sign is also appropriately sized. The columns that are present in the current storefront will be retained.