As chairman of New Albany’s Historic Preservation Commission, Ted presided over the body’s “marathon” session last Thursday night, which he recapped the following day in November 10th - a Historic Day Indeed (updated).
Among the commission’s actions at the meeting was approval for “plans for the restoration of three storefronts on Pearl Street between Main and Market.”
Ted included a sketch of the storefront restoration that had been submitted to the HPC by Stephen Beardsley, owner of the buildings, and NAC reprints the “after” sketch here, accompanied by photos of the buildings in their current “before” state.
The three buildings between Office Supply (left) and Hannegan Hall (right) are the storefronts in question.
Here are two closer views of the storefronts.
Finally, the sketch showing design features to be restored.
We wish the best to Stephen Beardsley and commend him for taking on this project.
9 comments:
Stephen Beardsley owns them. Sassy's Flowers currently occupies 2 sections and the third part where Cohn's used to be (you can see the shadow of the name on the building where the sign has been removed)is empty.
I believe that this is where they have been working on residential space on the upper floors.
At least one of us should buy Stephen Beardsley a beer. Getting rid of the stucco alone is worth that.
But there must be a place for stucco in intelligent design -- not to mention puke.
Now if we could just get rid of the metal on the old Fashon Shop store!
I have been told that the metal front on the old Fashion Shop building actually replaced the original facade instead of covering it up which will make it much more problematic to remove/restore. Don't know if this is correct information or not.
I agree that it is completely out of place with the older facades and detracts from them but I know everyone will think I'm crazy) I kind of like it.
I really don't know enough about design from that period to know if it is a good example or not. It would be great for a store specializing in mid-century modern furniture, home accessories, etc.
na girl, I have heard both ways, some say its gone, some say the facade is there in tact. I wonder who is right. It is out of place with the rest of the downtown, but to each his or her own! At least it doesn't have holes in where pigeons can roost.
My one-person metal building campaign is now two strong.
How is it that other downtown communties blend the different kinds of architecure but it looks so ugly in NA? Downtown Asheville,NC has various kinds of fisades on structures in and around the redevolped areas and it looks real good. Here it looks so haphazard, especially the metal on the old Shop & Save/Fashion Shop. So there Jeff, you have another on your team.
Good article in the paper this morning about our beloved Mosier Tannery.
One of the interesting things I learned about Historic Preservation tax credits is that a building owner wouldn't necessarily be required to return a building to it's original appearance in order to qualify for the tax credits.
Seems like I remember someone telling me that when DNA renovated the White House the newer facade was left in place because it was not possible to remove it without damaging the original facade or that the original facade had been damaged by the remodeling.
I would just be happy to see the buidlings cleaned up and occupied for starters.
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