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APPROPRIATE AND INAPPROPRIATE REAR ADDITION ALTERNATIVES
These images illustrate how the design guidelines for adding a rear addition would apply to a series of
alternatives.
1. One-Story Addition Inset from Historic Walls
• Roof pitch matches
historic building
• Eave line maintained
• Height and width
of historic building is
maintained
• Maintains all corners of
historic structure
2. One-Story Addition with Connector and Walls Aligned with Historic Walls
• Roof pitch matches
historic building
V. Issue: Additions to Historic Buildings
• Eave line maintained
Some recent additions to historic buildings, particularly
• Height and width residential buildings in the Historic District, have been out
of historic building is of scale with and have overwhelmed the original building.
maintained These large, new additions have also changed the character
• Maintains all corners of of the site and have often reduced the integrity of the historic
historic structure
resource, resulting in some non-contributing status rating
3. One-Story Addition Inset from One Historic Wall and Offset from One Historic Wall recommendation changes by the surveyor. Note that these are
• Roof pitch matches recommendations for the status of the structure in regards to
historic building the National Register District, but will not be implemented and
• Eave line maintained do not affect the local register ratings.
• Width of historic building is
maintained Recommendation
Provide further guidance in the Handbook of Design Standards
• Maintains 3 corners of
historic structure for additions, starting on page 36. Illustrations are also
While this addition maintains the needed to clarify the standards and to show a variety of things
sidewall planes, its height overwhelms including:
4. Two-Story Addition with Connector and Walls Aligned with Historic Walls the historic structure. The lack of • The proportion of the addition with respect to the historic
connector also contributes to the building.
• Roof pitch matches inappropriate design.
historic building • The position of the addition – especially regarding the
alignment of the sidewalls compared to the sidewalls of the
• Eave line maintained historic building.
• Width of historic building is • When it is appropriate to incorporate an addition that
maintained is wider than the historic building. It is good practice to

• Maintains all corners of maintain the plane of at least one of the sidewalls of the
historic structure
historic building. Maintaining the plane of both side walls is
preferred.
5. Two-Story Addition Inset from Historic Walls • One connector is permitted, and it must project from the rear

• Roof pitch matches of the historic building.
historic building • Roof form and orientation
• Eave line maintained • Appropriate proportions of connectors (to supplement the
• Width of historic building is written standards provided on pages 57-58).
maintained • Designs that appear as two separate buildings (which
• Maintains all corners of may incorporate an underground connector between the
structures) would receive positive points.
historic structure APPROPRIATE AND INAPPROPRIATE REAR ADDITION ALTERNATIVES
Even though this addition is inset • Designs that maintain the general ratio, or perception, of
These images illustrate how the design guidelines for adding a rear addition would apply to a series of
from the historic building, its scale building to open space on the lot are preferred
alternatives.
immediately abutting the original • Designs that illustrate clearly subordinate additions.
overwhelms the historic building.
1. One-Story Addition Inset from Historic Walls
• Roof pitch matches
historic building
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Section 6: More Guidelines for Additions: Draft 1-Public Review, June 20, 2017 • Eave line maintained
• Height and width
of historic building is
maintained
• Maintains all corners of
historic structure
2. One-Story Addition with Connector and Walls Aligned with Historic Walls
Despite the lack of connector, this addition remains subordinate to the historic
• Roof pitch matches house because the sidewalls are inset from those of the historic building, its
historic building height is less than that of the historic structure, and it is short in length.
• Eave line maintained

6 • Height and width
of historic building is
maintained
• Maintains all corners of
historic structure
3. One-Story Addition Inset from One Historic Wall and Offset from One Historic Wall
• Roof pitch matches
historic building
• Eave line maintained
• Width of historic building is
maintained
• Maintains 3 corners of
historic structure

4. Two-Story Addition with Connector and Walls Aligned with Historic Walls
• Roof pitch matches
historic building
• Eave line maintained
• Width of historic building is
maintained
• Maintains all corners of
historic structure

5. Two-Story Addition Inset from Historic Walls
• Roof pitch matches
historic building
• Eave line maintained
• Width of historic building is
maintained
• Maintains all corners of
historic structure

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