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Additions to His toric residentiAl Buildin gs

Porch Additions
This section provides guidance for adding a porch to a new
location to a historic main building. Porches may be appropriate
to add at certain locations. A new porch addition should remain
subordinate to any original historic porches. In general, a new
porch is best located to the side or rear of the historic building.

5.12 Design and place a new porch to maintain the visibility
to, and integrity of, the original historic building and
its features.
a. Do not add a new front porch to a historic building where
there is no evidence of an original porch that has been
Design the scale and proportion of
removed.
a porch addition to be subordinate
b. Do not expand an original historic front porch.
to the existing historic residential
structure.
5.13 Design a new porch to be compatible with the existing
historic building.
a. Design the scale and proportion of a porch addition to be
subordinate to the existing historic residential structure.
b. Design a porch addition roof form to be compatible with
the existing historic building. However, a porch addition
roofline need not match exactly that of the historic
building.

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