11.0 – 1 HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION PERMITS IN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICTS DECEMBER 4, 2024 HR-2024-150669 OLD WEST AUSTIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT 1505 WEST 32ND STREET PROPOSAL Construct two additions and a rear housing unit. PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS 1) Demolish the front porch and entryway, along with the left wall. 2) Construct a new entryway and office at front center of building. 3) Construct a new addition left side, projecting in front and behind the original footprint. 4) Construct a second, two-story dwelling unit at rear of property. ARCHITECTURE The current appearance of the property is largely unornamented. There is a front porch, elevated three steps above grade and supported by four wood posts, that covers the front entry. To the right of this is a moderately sized window that appears to be a replacement. Apart from two small windows to the left of the porch, this is all the fenestration that appears on the street-facing elevation. The roof is side-gabled and set at a moderate pitch. The overall shape of the house appears to have not been altered, retaining its overall elongated rectangular plan. RESEARCH DESIGN STANDARDS Built around 1940, this house was owned for at least 20 years by Major & Rubie Harwood. Major Harwood worked in several government roles during this time, including at the WPA, the IRS, and the Texas Department of Agriculture. The City of Austin’s Historic Design Standards (March 2021) are based on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and are used to evaluate projects in National Register districts. The following standards apply to the proposed project: Residential additions 1. Location The additions are proposed at the front entry and at the left of the building, both of which project forward from the existing footprint. This would greatly alter the visual appearance of the house, as detailed in Standard 1.1 and 1.2. 2. Scale, massing, and height Both additions are matching in height to the original building. While not deferential in size, they are also not larger in scale than the original. However, the building’s shape would be significantly altered when viewed from the street. 3. Design and style Due to the simple and straightforward appearance of the original building, the additions can match the style of the majority of the house well. However, the front addition does this while destroying the front porch, which is the section of the street- facing …
HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION WEDNESDAY, November 6th, 2024 – 6:00 PM City Hall – Council Chambers 301 W. 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701 Some members of the Commission may be participating by videoconference. The meeting may be viewed online at: http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch-atxn-live. Public comment will be allowed in-person or remotely via telephone. Speakers may only register to speak on an item once either in-person or remotely and will be allowed up to three minutes to provide their comments. Registration no later than noon the day before the meeting is required for remote participation by telephone. To register to speak remotely, email preservation@austintexas.gov or call Sam Fahnestock at (512) 974-3393. COMMISSION MEMBERS: Ben Heimsath, Chair x Witt Featherston, Vice Chair ab Kevin Koch x Carl Larosche ab Trey McWhorter x Harmony Grogan x x x x x x Jaime Alvarez Roxanne Evans Raymond Castillo JuanRaymon Rubio Tara Dudley DRAFT MINUTES CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first (10) speakers who register to speak no later than noon the day before the meeting will be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. Meghan King spoke on Preservation Austin updates. Kay Gourley spoke on the Limerick-Frazier House. 1 MOTION: Reopen public communications at 8:07PM on a motion by Commissioner Koch. Commissioner McWhorter seconded the motion. Vote: 9-0. The motion passed. Marlaine Ngudia spoke on the Revive Norwood Alliance. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. October 2, 2024 – Offered for consent approval. MOTION: Approve the minutes per passage of the consent agenda on a motion by Commissioner Koch. Commissioner McWhorter seconded the motion. Vote: 9-0. The motion passed. CONSENT/CONSENT POSTPONEMENT AGENDA Historic Zoning Applications Item 2 was pulled for discussion. Item 3 was pulled for discussion. 4. C14H-2024-0103 – 1308 Springdale Rd. Council District 1 Proposal: Commission-initiated historic zoning. (Postponed October 2, 2024) Applicant: HLC City Staff: Kalan Contreras, Historic Preservation Office, 512-974-2727 Staff Recommendation: Grant the applicant’s request to postpone the public hearing to December 4, 2024. MOTION: Postpone the public hearing to December 4, 2024, per passage of the consent postponement agenda, on a motion by Commissioner Koch. Commissioner McWhorter seconded the motion. Vote: 9-0. The motion passed. Item 5 was pulled for discussion. Item 6 was pulled for discussion. Historic Landmark and Local Historic District Applications 7. HR-2024-040291– 1807 E Cesar Chavez St. Berner-Clark-Mercado House Council District 3 Proposal: Repair/replace deck and rails, paint exterior. …
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12 – 1 HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION PERMITS IN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICTS DECEMBER 4, 2024 HR-2024-149562 OLD WEST AUSTIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT 1417 PRESTON AVENUE PROPOSAL Construct a new residence and pool in place of an existing non-contributing house. PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS The proposed new house is two stories in height with a cross-gabled roof. It is clad in horizontal fiber-cement siding, with brick veneer at the foundation skirting. Fenestration includes 6:6 wood double-hung and casement windows with operable shutters, 12:12 and 9:9 wood double-hung windows with operable shutters, and an inset front door with divided-light sidelights and transom. The proposed detached garage is connected to the main house via breezeway. It is one story in height and constructed at the rear of the property, with materials to match the main house. DESIGN STANDARDS The City of Austin’s Historic Design Standards (March 2021) are based on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and are used to evaluate projects in National Register districts. The following standards apply to the proposed project: Residential new construction 1. Location The proposed house is located roughly in the location of the existing non-contributing house, and is set back compatibly with contributing buildings on the street. 2. Orientation The proposed house and garage are oriented consistently with nearby contributing buildings. 3. Scale, massing, and height The proposed house and garage are compatible with the district in scale, massing, and height. 4. Proportions The proposed new buildings’ proportions are compatible with those of contributing buildings in the district. 5. Design and style The proposed new buildings’ design and style are compatible with those of contributing buildings in the district. 6. Roofs The proposed new buildings’ rooflines are compatible with those of contributing buildings in the district. 7. Exterior walls Proposed primary and secondary materials are appropriate for the district. 8. Windows and doors Proposed fenestration is appropriate. 11. Attached garages and carports The proposed outbuilding, while attached via breezeway, is set back from the street and is consistent with historic-age detached outbuildings elsewhere in the district. Summary The project meets the applicable standards. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Comment on plans. LOCATION MAP 12 – 2
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13 – 1 HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION PERMITS DECEMBER 4, 2024 HR-2024-150523 WEST LINE NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT 1101 WEST LYNN STREET PROPOSAL PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH Remove and replace existing ramp. Partially demolish and construct new door opening. Construct portion of new development at rear. 1) Remove existing ADA ramp at north elevation and construct accessible entrance at south elevation. 2) Partially demolish the south elevation to construct a new door opening. 3) Construct part of mixed-use development behind the existing building. The proposed mixed-use structure is 5 stories in height, with a flat roof, horizontally oriented full-height windows, transparent screening, a roof deck, and stucco cladding. See HR-2024-150514 for details. One-story wing-and-gable house with partial-width front porch, replacement picture windows, horizontal fiber-cement siding, and classical cornice returns at gable end. The house currently at 1101 West Lynn Street was originally constructed around 1903 a few blocks away at 1009 W. 11th Street. Its first residents were the Voss family, who lived in multiple residences on W. 11th. Dietrich Voss owned a saloon on Congress Avenue, and William Voss worked for his uncle, Herman H. Voss, who owned a housewares store on Congress. By 1912, the Vosses had sold the house to Thomas H. Barrow, a real estate broker and investment company owner, and his large family. During the early 1920s, Barrow sold the property to gastroenterologist Dr. Dalton Richardson, who remained in the home for only a few years. The house was a rental property without long-term occupants for several years before it was purchased by Mary Gordon Zanders and moved to its current location. Zanders lived there with her son, Buford Buckley, who worked as a clerk for the IRS. She opened and operated a beauty shop there until her death in 1969. DESIGN STANDARDS The City of Austin’s Historic Design Standards (March 2021) are based on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and are used to evaluate projects in National Register districts. The following standards apply to the proposed project: Repair and alterations 1. General standards The proposed project mostly alters portions of the building that have been changed over the years, notably the front porch. 3. Roofs The proposed project removes the non-original shed roof over the front porch. 5. Windows, doors, and screens The proposed project does not significantly alter the existing non-original window pattern, replacing windows with similar non-compatible …
14 – 1 HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION PERMITS IN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICTS DECEMBER 4, 2024 HR-2024-150514 WEST LINE NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT 1113-1115 WEST LYNN STREET PROPOSAL Partially demolish and remodel existing building, reconstructing the west façade and constructing a new mixed-use development. Preserve existing Daniel Johnston mural in place. PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS 1) Demolish existing building, except for the mural and brick wall at the north elevation. Stabilize and preserve existing mural and brick wall, using steel supports and a temporary slab to anchor it in place while the new building is constructed around it. 2) Reconstruct deteriorated west (front) elevation with in-kind materials and fenestration, including canopy. 3) Construct a new mixed-use building with commercial frontage on West Lynn Street and residential frontage on Eason Street. The proposed mixed-use structure is 5 stories in height, with a flat roof, horizontally oriented full-height windows, transparent screening, a roof deck, and stucco cladding. The new building wraps the existing house at 1101 West Lynn Street, with outdoor seating terraces unifying the two structures. 4) Add street trees and low-profile planters in place of existing parking lots. Retain existing historic-age signage. ARCHITECTURE The existing building includes a one-story, horizontally oriented two-unit store with plate-glass windows, masonry veneer, and a flat canopy with curved supports; and a two-story attached dry cleaner with painted stone cladding and no fenestration at the primary street frontage but a long horizontal bank of multilight steel casement windows at the secondary façade. RESEARCH The building at 1113-1115 West Lynn Street was constructed in 1950 by Anthony and Alice Colanetta, replacing an older store building that had housed a drugstore named Enfield Rite-Way. The Colanettas opened Anthony’s Laundry and Cleaners in one half of the building and leased the other half to Hilton and Eleanor Nau in 1951. There, the Naus opened Nau’s Enfield Drug and soda fountain, and the businesses operated side-by-side for the rest of the century. According to a 2021 history by former Historic Preservation Officer Elizabeth Brummett, the Nau family owned several drugstores in Austin: Historically, multiple drug stores bore the Nau name, most owned by Hilton’s older brother Ladner. Ladner Nau came to Austin in 1926 to go to pharmacy school at the University of Texas. After working at a drug store for a couple of years, he and the proprietor of that store opened the Community Drug Store at 1201 E. 1st (Cesar …
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15 – 1 HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION PERMITS DECEMBER 4, 2024 PR-2024-043035; GF-2024-058054 1702 EAST MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BOULEVARD PROPOSAL Demolish a ca. 1916 house and 1942 rear house. ARCHITECTURE One-story National Folk house with pyramidal hipped roof, board-and-batten siding, and inset partial-width porch supported by turned posts. Fenestration includes 1:1 and 4:1 wood windows; one of the original double entry doors has been converted to a window. Two decorative jigsawn brackets remain and two chimneys are present. The back house is a gabled, one-story building with horizontal wood siding and a partial width inset porch. RESEARCH The front house at 1702 East Martin Luther King was constructed around 1916 as a rental property. Its architectural detailing marks it as an example of National Folk houses rented to working-class East Austin families during the early years of the twentieth century by Edmund and Oscar Hofheinz. According to a 2019 Historic Preservation Office report, 11 known and 13 possible houses of this style and original use remain within the East Austin Historic Resource Survey area,1 though several have since been demolished. The East Austin Context Statement notes their impact on development patterns: The first two decades of the 1900s were rampant with development throughout East Austin…residential construction in these new developments reflected evolving trends in domestic designs, as the eclectic tastes of the Victorian era waned and simpler styles…became more widespread…new [working-class] house types began to replace more traditional forms. The linear, one‐ room‐deep plans that featured gabled roofs…gave way to deeper, more box‐like plans and often had hipped or pyramidal roofs with inset porches. The effect created a more vertical emphasis. The rental houses of brothers Edmund (“E. J.”) Hofheinz and Oscar (“O. G.”) Hofheinz exemplified this trend. E. J. Hofheinz (ca. 1870–1949) was a real estate dealer and accountant, while O.G. Hofheinz (ca. 1880–1957) was an insurance salesman and developer. Together, the brothers subdivided land and built houses in East Austin and Clarksville. Real estate transaction articles in the Austin American Statesman indicate that the Hofheinz brothers both speculatively sold the houses that they built and retained them for rental income.2 Though the Hofheinz brothers rented some of their properties to tenants of color, their purchase of smaller lots and homes made property ownership even more difficult for East Austin residents. Even if African American homebuyers could secure a loan large enough to purchase a lot—a …
BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 27, 2024 BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING MINUTES WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 The BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION convened in a REGULAR meeting on 27 March 2024, at the CITY OF AUSTIN PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (PDC), 6310 WILHELMINA DELCO DRIVE, ROOM 1405, in Austin, Texas. CHAIR SADÉ OGUNBODE called the BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION (BSC) Meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. Commissioners in Attendance: Chair Sadé Ogunbode, Commissioners: Blaine Campbell, Michael Francis, Luis Osta Lugo, Logan Schugart, Edward Selig. Commissioners in Attendance Remotely: Vice Chair Timothy Stostad, Ex Officio Commissioner Chief Stephen Truesdell. PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL No one appeared before the Commission for Public Communication. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Approve the minutes of the BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING on February 28, 2024. The minutes the meeting of February 28, 2024 were approved on COMMISSIONER FRANCIS’ motion, COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO’s second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER SELIG was off dais. COMMISSIONER BENIGNO was absent. from PUBLIC HEARINGS Conduct a public hearing and consider an appeal regarding case number CL 2023-128313; Property address: 2901 Sweeney Lane. 1. 2. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER CAMPBELL’s second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER CAMPBELL moved to 1 BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 27, 2024 adopt the findings of fact, conclusions of law and order 1) that the owner of the property maintain the security of the property until the May 22, 2024 meeting of the Building and Standards Commission; and 2) that the case be continued at the May 22, 2024 meeting of the Building and Standards so that counsel can provide guidance on legal issues affecting the property, COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO second. The motion passed on an 7-0 vote. COMMISSIONER BENIGNO was absent. Conduct a public hearing and consider case numbers CL 2023-128650; Property address: 7603 Beinville Cove. COMMISSIONER SELIG moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER SELIG moved to adopt the findings of fact, conclusions of law and adopt City staff’s recommendation for repair of the residential structure within 45 days, with a civil penalty of $420 per week beginning on the 46th day from the date the order is mailed and continuing until compliance is achieved, COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO’s second. The motion carried on a 6-1 vote. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS voted nay. COMMISSIONER BENIGNO was absent. Conduct a public hearing and …
