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Home My WebLink AboutPZ2023-155DATE. May8lZO23 TO: Historic Landmark Commission FROM: E|aynaLucke» Planner SUBJECT: A request for a Certificate of Appropriateness to reduce windows and construct a new driveway. FILE: PZ2023-155 STAFF REPORT Property owner, Pat Jones, requests permission to reduce the windows on the east side of the structure, and to remove the existing pavers to install a concrete driveway at 2565 Rusk Street. Mr. Jones is in the process of renovating the vacant structure and would like to reduce the current eight (8) windows located within the one room on the east side of the home to four (4). The structure could be categorized as a Tudor home, with the steeply pitched gross gabled roof and brick tabbed detailing along the door and attached side entry. The style was largely constructed during the l92O'sand 3D'swith Colonial Revival homes. Examples ofsuch can be seen in A Field Guide to American Houses (McAlester et al., pgs. 355--363). Staff recommends approval of the request with the following conditions: 1. All applicable permits and inspections be obtained through the Building Codes Department. 2. The new pavement of the drive shall not extend in front of the structure. The property is not listed in the SPARE Beaumont survey. Exhibits are attached. McAlester, Virginia & Lee. A Field Guide to Amerkan Houses. Alfred A. Kn c)pf, Iric., 1984. Print. BEAVM4NT Planiiing & Community Development Case Type. Planning and Zoning Case StatLIS: PAY FEES Case Sub Type: Certificate of Appropriateness Tag Name: modify windows Case #: PZ2023-155 Initiated On: 4/512023 11:28*31AM Location: 2565 RUSK ST BEAUMONT, 77702 Individuals listed ot7 the record: Applicant patrick jones Horne Phone, 900 Northwind Work Phone, port arthur, TX 77640 Cell Phone: 4097289735 E-Mail- pjones92004@yahoo,com Reason for Request of a Certificate of Appropriateness Paint New Construction Demo Fencing Miscellaneous Has request been made before? if yes, date: Notes: replace in total 23 windows— request to remove a double window on the east side and replace with singular window. Remove existing pavers in driveway and replace with a concrete driveway from approach to rear of structure in same path as pavers. N N N N Y N This is not a building permit, additional permits may be required for the proposed scope of work. Case Type. Planning and Zoning Page I of 1 Case #, PZ2023-155 Printed On: 4/11/2023 a f, �,, , d , 6 aek e , 0 --f A el"t-, 9A",a e� A � j��,✓� �`Y�Q-- �!'I G^ % / f!'t f (�tr�t `Y S r v' � � I�- �t S k °�,,v � /t of d �✓wyl //+ CAA r� G' d �� ' A o7�► � tN- I n �a w wo i l TA (s � � � 7'�`�t � �" � G� r dvt Ltl�t �cm -Par -ti-Ae am �{ S r �e D T I7oua-� W. f r'e-lx f �� ,VA 0 VI-eA 61Y 0 e aAtl 4A -e"A e elf GOB rr�r �' an rl wuj'l �-� f-eaA qo P q�oneS `I 2cro y� yai2 PO Csm O ouJ�Un Gn ECLECTIC HOUSES steeply pitched roof. usually side -gabled (less commonly flipped or front -gabled) Rail, n2rro%v windows, commonly in multiple groups and with multi - pane glaziny WOODEN WALL CLA DDTNG P39c 368 Tudor 1890-1940 IDENTIFYING Ili. ATURES Steeply pitched roof, usually side -gabled (less commonly hipped or front -gabled); fa- cade dorninated by one or more prominent cross gables, usually steeply pitched; decora- tive (i.e., not structural) half-timbering present on about half of examples; tall, narroxv- windows, usually in multiple groups and with multi -pane glazing; massive chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots. PRINCIPAL SUBTYPFS Six principal subtypes can be distinguished: STUCCO NVALL CLADDING —A 1-elativcly small percentage of Tudor houses have stucco walls. These are most common on modest examples built before the widespread adoption of brick and stone veneering techniques in the 1920S. In the early decades of the century wood -frame houses could be most easily disguised as masonry by applying stucco clad- ding over the wooden studs; many early Tudor houses used this technique, both with and without false half-timbering. BRICK NVALL CLADDING —This is the most common Tudor subtype. Walls of solid brick ma- sonry were sometimes used on landmark exan-kples early in this century, but brick be- came the preferred wall finish for even the most modest Tudor Cottages after masonry veneering became widespread in the 1920s. Brick first - story walls are commonly coll- trasted with stone, stucco, or wooden claddings on principal gables or upper stories. False half-timbering occurs on about half the houses in this style, with infilling of stucco or brick between the timbers and, quite of elaborate decorative patterns in the arrange- nient of timbers or brick. STONE NVALL CLADDINC,—Stone trim is common on Tudor houses of all subtypes but only a relatively small proportion have stone as the principal wall material. Like the ones just described, these were principally large landmark houses before 192o. During the ig2os .and ) 30s, modest, stone -veneered cottages appeared. In this subtype, brick, stucco, or wooden trim is frequent on gables or second stories, as is false half-timbering. WOODEN WALL CLADD1,,%T&—Earlier American styles based on English Medieval precedents (Gothic Revival, Stick, Queen Anne) were executed predominantly In wood, whereas nrinrinn] walls with wooden cladding are uncommon on Tudor houses. Modest examples I EI leloteses., Tudorccfic on Onestory bayma s; sll transoms are sorned m ies present above the main win- - or two- dows. Stone mullions may divide casements and transoms in high -style examples. OTHET DETAILS —Use of a variety of wall materials is comi-non, both for different vertical units an(! for different stories, patterned brickwork and stonework is common. Upper stories and gables may overhang lower stories. Castellated parapets are sometimes pres- ent. Front -facade porches are generally either small entry porches or are absent entircly. Side porches are fi-equent. OCCURRENCE This dominant style of domestic building was used for a large- proportion Of Carly 20th- century suburban houses throughout the country. It was particularly fashionable during the ig-2os and early '30s when only the Colonial Revival rivaled it in popularity as a ver- nacular style. TS COMMEN The popular name for the style is historically in-iprecise, since relatively few exampl s -century) England. closely mirnic the architectural characteristics of Tudor (early 16th Instead, the style is loosely based on a variety of late Medieval English prototypes, rang- ing from thatch -roofed folk cottages to grand manor houses. These traditions are freely mixed in their American Eclectic expressions but are united by an emphasis on steeply pitched, front -facing gables which, although absent on any English prototypes, are at - most universally present as a dominant facade element in Tudor houses. About half have ornamental false half-timbering, a characteristic they share with some examples of the :I earlier Stick and Queen Anne styles, which also drew heavily on Medieval English prece- dent. Unlike these styles, which were usually executed with wooden (board or shingle) wall cladding, most Tudor houses have stucco, masonry, or masonry -veneered walls. The earliest American houses in the style date from the late 19th century, These tended to be architect -designed landmarks which, like the first American Queen Anne houses built twenty years earlier, rather closely copied English models. Many were pat- terned after late Medieval buildings with Renaissance detailing that were popular during the reigns of Elizabeth I ( 15 5 8- 160 3 ) and J anic s I ( 160 3-25), the Elizabethan and Jaco- bean eras of English history. Architectural historians have proposed the contracted term "Jacobethan" style for these early Tudor landmarks. Most fall into the parapeted gable subtype described above. The uncommon Tudor I and in arks of the j acob ethan type were Pined in the decades from 1900 to 192o by less pretentious Tudor houses which superimposed steep gables, half-timbering, or other typical detailing upon otherwise symmetrical facades (i-host W1 commonly -with full front gables). These modest cai-ly examples, unlike most Tudor houses, tend to have walls clad with weatherboard, shingles, or stucco (applied over Wooden lath), thus avoiding the expense of solid masonry construction. Still relatively uncommon before World War 1, the style expanded explosively in popularity during the i -iodest examples 192os and '3os as masonry veneering techniques allowed even the most n to mimic closely the brick and stone exteriors seen on English prototypes. They show endless variations in overall shape and roof form and are most conveniently subdivided . on the basis of their dominant facade materials (brick, stone, stucco, or wood)The style quickly faded from fashion in the late 193os but has become popular in somewhat modi- fied form during the Neocclectic movement of the 197os and '8os. 358 Of ,Eaec tic Houses: Tudor STUCCO WAL), IADDING ], Lexington, Kcntucky; 19205. 2. Ashtabula, Ohio; igios. Note the Nvall dormers, an unusual Tudor feature, the brick tabbed door surround, the quoins grid the chimncy de- tailing. 3. Louisville, Kentucky; 19 1 os. Such examples, with the dominant front gable capped by a hip, suggest Continental, rather than British, precedents. They were sometimes referrcd to as Germanic Cottages by eclectic build- ers. 4. Cleveland, ONO; 192os. This example retains the original roof of rough -cut slate. Note the unusually low cave line and the massive front chinineys. S. Montgomery, Alabama; igios. Many early Tudor houses were syni- metrical-or nearly so, as in this example. 6. Americus, Georgia; '1920F. 7. Louisville, Kentucky; igios. Wymond House. This landinark exarn- ple has Nvood-shingle walls above the rough -finished stucco of the first story. Note the multiple groups of casement windows and the shed dormer to the left, contrasting with the hipped dormers on the right. 8. Pittsford, New York; ig2os. Note (tic decorated vergeboards in the gables and the second -story overhang above the entry. 4 7 360 I 2