HomeMy WebLinkAboutCA3071DATE: July 8, 2019
TO: Historic Landmark Commission
FROM: Demi Laney, Planner I
SUBJECT: A request for a Certificate of Appropriateness to remove bay windows and replace
with two windows.
FILE: CA -3071
Kawana Dixon requests permission to remove the bay window from her home located at 2280
Hazel Street. The left side of the house currently has six (6) windows, four (4) of which are
located in the bay window. She wishes to salvage two (2) of the four (4) windows, which will be
used in the new exterior wall. With permission of removal, the left side of the house will have
four (4) windows remaining and become a flat wall from the front of the house all the way to the
rear of the house. Please refer to the sketch in your packets for a visual.
This home is categorized as a National Folk house. The bay window does not appear to be
appropriate for a National Folk house in accordance to photos demonstrated in A Field Guide to
American Houses (McAlester et al., pg. 90). The bay window is more appropriate for a
Victorian style home.
Staff recommends approval of the bay window removal conditional to installation of siding to
match existing exterior walls of house.
The house is in the 1990 SPARE Beaumont Survey. SPARE states that the house was built in
1925. The house is typical of middle class housing built to accommodate the growing population
in Beaumont in the 1920's.
Exhibits are attached.
McAlester, Virginia & Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984. Print.
APPLICATION FOR A
CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS
BEAUMONT, TEXAS
(Chapter 30, City Codes)
(409) 880-3764
Fax: (409) 880-3133
OFFICE USE ONLY:
FILE # :t A
DATE RECEIVED:
ADDRESS OF OWNER:
APPLICANT NAME (IF NOT OWNER):
APPLICANTS PHONE NUMBER: 4W'-9.25 L6 5L, - FAX NUMBER:
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REASON FOR REQUEST OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS:
TYPE OF REQUEST. PAINT v
FENCING
HAS REQUEST BEEN MADE BEFORE:
NEW CONSTRUCTION DEMO
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IF YES, DATE:
APPLICANT SIGNATURE 6dl lAff� dpivy') DATE: I Q Iq I n
OFFICE USE ONLY:
APPROVED: YES NO
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transportation and communication improved, each shape became distributed beyond its
area of traditional dominance. Light framing techniques ofthis centurytonew Theseolk were ms Which
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massed -plan houses that were now relatively simple to construct because light wooden
be adapted to span two -room depths. Such houses, when Of rec
roof framing could easily
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tangular shape, normally had side -gabled roofs and are called massed -plan, side -gabled
' folk houses, More nearly square plans typically had pyramidal (equilateral hipped
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GABLE -FRONT FAMILY
ominated American styled houses during the pe -
The Greek Revival movement, which d
riod from 1830 to 1850, commonly used the front -gabled shape to echo the p
edimented
facade of typical Greek temples. This form was particularly common in New England
and the adjacent northeast region where simple gable -front folk houses also became pop-
ular during the pre -railroad era. This shape persisted with the expansion of the eastern
railroad network in the 18 5o and became a dominant folk form until well into the zoth
century. Gable -front houses were particularly suited for narrow urban lots in the rapidly
expanding cities of the northeast. There, many late 19th- and early zoth-century neigh-
borhoods are dominated by both styled and simple folk examples built in this form. Most
are narrow, two-story houses with relatively steep roof pitches. A related one
anding southern cities in the late 19th century.
urban form first became common in exp
This is the shotgun house, narrow gable -front dwellings one room wide that dominated
many modest southern neighborhoods built from about 1880 to 1930. Some are elabo-
rately styled but most are simple folk houses. The origin of these southern shotgun
holars note that similar forms are common in the
houses has been much debated. Some sc
West Indies and trace them from Africa to early Haitian influences in New Orleans,
whence they became popular with Black freedmen migrating to southern urban centers
following the Civil War. A less complex familiar one -
e theory is rural South turned sideways t they are simply oeaccommodate
room -deep, hall -and -parlor plan- of th
narrow urban lots.
An additional wave of interest in the gable -front shape grew from styled houses of
vement, which were typically built in this form.
the early aoth-century Craftsmanmo
Many, modest folk houses without stylistoc Thesesng were are usually pone- tory, double -width
houses 1n the decades from i910 to 1ired by such Craftsman
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form_ s with low-pitched roofs; they are most common in rural areas and occur throughout
the country.
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BEAUMONT, TEXAS HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY FORM - BEAUMONT HISTORICAL LANDMARK COMMISSION
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1. County JEFFERSON 5. USGS Quad No. 3094-111 Site No. 718
'City/Rural BEAUMONT BMT
' b. date: Factual Est. c. 1925
2. Name
Address 2280 Hazel 7. Architect/Builder
Contractor
3. Owner Sunlight Baptist Church Trustees B. Style/Type National Folk
'Address 1283 Calder Beaumont 77701-2789
9. Original'Use DOMESTIC/Single Dwelling
4. Block/Lot Averill Lot 15 Block 7 SE 1-3 Present Use VACANT
10. Description:
One story frame structure. Gable front roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafters. Two one -over -one sash.
Wood and nine -light door. Recessed portico supported by four wrought iron columns with cornice brackets on square
brick bases. Wood porch and brick steps.
11. Present Condition Fair. The house appears structurally sound It requires some cosmetic attention
12. Significance:
The house is typical of middle class housing built to accommodate the growing population in Beaumont in the 1920's.
13. .Relationship to Site
14. Bibliography
original
Moved
Date (Describe Original Site)
15. Informant
16. Recorder S. Skarbowski Date 06-07-90
PHOTO DATA
Black and White 35 mm negative
YEAR DRUB ROLL FR1E ROLL' FRIE i
90 07 1 08 to
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RECORDED BY: S. Skarbowski
DATE: