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January 08, 2006
Making old new again (continued)
Just to try and make my life more difficult, after modifying the drawings of the building to encompass the vertical planks on the first floor and shingles on the second floor, I decided to strip away some of the cedar shingles on the second floor, and found more painted vertical planking. This means that the original look of this building was vertical planking all the way up to the quasi-tudor faux exposed wood beams. The question of the year now becomes, do I show plans to LPC with the building as it originally, originally was, or how it was on the tax photo? I personally prefer the vertical planks below, and then the shingles above (but in "fire-proof" hardiplank rather than, "let's start a fire" cedar shingles). |
Posted by shahnandersen at 03:10 PM
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January 04, 2006
Making old new again
I presented to the Community Board 2 Land Use Committee on December 20th in the midst of the transit strike, and it's hard to so whether I benefitted from the low turnout or not. Most of the people who had just walked home from Manhattan in the bitter cold were definately not going to trudge over to Metrotech to listen to people blather about their projects unless they were masochistic or emotionally involved in real estate. Either one would probably not have been a bood to the voting on my project. Regardless, the committee approved my plans 9-1. A week or so later, I met with Landmarks on the staff level, where some suggestions were made as to how to make my plans more acceptable. I was initially resistant to the proposed changes, but have since warmed to some of their ideas while working on the plans, and have updated the proposed drawings with the changes.
They had suggested that I try to return the exterior of the building to its original look, which is difficult to do since the building has been renovated so many times in the last 150 years, it's hard to know what the original looked like. There is evidnce of atleast two renovations between its initial construction in 1863 and the tax photo of 1939. I ended up stripping away some asphalt shingles and realized that the walls of the upper two thirds of the building were covered in cedar shingles (which would be pretty unusual for when it was built), and the lower third had painted vertical planks that at some point had moldings between them. |
Posted by shahnandersen at 09:05 AM
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