Several downtown properties seeking commission approval

Published 6:00 pm Friday, December 28, 2018

Washington’s Historic Preservation Commission, during it meeting Tuesday, will consider several requests for certificates of appropriateness.

Many of the requests center around the central business district.

One request is to alter and paint the primary façade of the property at 157 W. Main St. It is owned by INA, LLL. “Our intent is to restore the visual and physical integrity of the masonry building with a careful rehabilitation,” reads part of the application for the certificate, filed b Sed Naziri.

In a letter from Naziri to Emily Rebert, the city’s community-development planner, Naziri wrote, “As you well know, this building front has gone through major distraction to held heavy panels and sign stretchers by workers whom never thought of easy reverse restoration. Most every section of the wall, corners, bottom and the top needs to be repaired and all the missing elements created.”

A staff report says the owner’s plans are not congruous with the commission’s design guidelines.

Another request, filed by owner John Logelfo, wants to alter the entryway to 126 W. Main St. He wants to relocate the glass storefront to its original location. A staff report says the owner’s plans are not congruous with the commission’s design guidelines.

Richard Mechling, owner of the former Fulford Hardware Co. at 112 E. Main St., wants to replace the roof. “The current roof on the building is made of standing seam overlapping metal panels. The roof is rusting, had deteriorated and is leaking,” reads part of the application. The new roofing material would be different. The current roof is not original.

The request is congruous with design guidelines.

Archie and Lydie Jennings, owners of 134 S. Market St., are seeking a certificate to replace exterior double doors with a single door taken from another Market Street building of the same era.

The request is not congruous with design guidelines.

Some of the request were caused by damage from Hurricane Florence.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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