2. 1021 Hudson Avenue_COA 2021-0730

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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: August 10, 2021 Application Number: 2021-0730 Property Location: 1021 Hudson Avenue Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Colonial Revival / 1921 / Campbell House Property Owner: Philip and Barbara Bess Landmark or District Designation: Riverside Drive Local Historic District, #7469-85 Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE : Rectangular plan two-story house with wide clapboard siding on a brick foundation. Hipped roof with “Dutch gables” on east and west end. Single rectangular brick chimney at northeast corner with concrete cap. Windows are 6/1 double-hung with wooden storm windows. A detached one-car garage is to the northwest. Entrance portico has broken pediment and doric columns. The east façade has a one-story screened sunporch with pergola roof. ALTERATIONS: COA 2000-0304 allowed for roof repair. COA 2004-0916 allowed for removing cedar shake shingles and asphalt shingles and replacement with new dimensional asphalt shingles. APPLICATION ITEMS: “Addition of new porch to front of house.” DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The applicant has requested approval to: Remove the existing front entrance portico and replace it with a shed-roofed front porch covering the eastern two thirds of the front façade. Regarding the proportions of the proposed project, the applicant’s submitted paperwork indicates the following: “We designed the 10’ x 20’ porch to appear as a natural extension of the original Colonial Revival house. Many of the porch details are inspired by other Colonial and Colonial Revival houses in the area as well as throughout the United States. Its design is meant to highlight good, honest craftsmanship primarily through wood carpentry. The porch is meant to be a compliment to the house but still be distinct in its appearance. It carefully aligns with the existing screened porch at the east side of the house. It will create a new outdoor room at the front of the house as well as offer protection from the weather to visitors to the front door.” The house has strong symmetry as originally built, with the entrance portico roof delineating the central axis. The screened in porch on the east side protrudes from the structure but is balanced by the rear detached garage and driveway on the west façade. The proposed change will result in the loss of the original broken pedimented entrance portico and doric columns and their replacement with the 2/3-width shed front porch. This may unbalance the house’s existing symmetry. Staff would prefer to see a full-length front porch, but the applicant has indicated that the homeowner prefers the natural light in the first-floor southwestern corner room. Regarding the materials of the proposed project, the applicant’s submitted paperwork indicates the following: “Construction materials and details are in keeping with the existing house. Principal materials will be painted wood, asphalt shingles, a concrete slab floor, and a brick facing on the foundation. Proposed porch columns are 6” x 6” in size, clad in painted wood to hide structure posts and connections, and are coupled in order to visually carry the weight of the roof above. Rafter tails with decorative ends sit on an architrave beam across the front, while the sides of the roof are covered with ship-lapped vertical siding. The ceiling of the porch will be painted beadboard, which the roof will be covered with asphalt shingles to match the main house.”