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HEMA No. 2024-03 – The St. Thomas-Hamilton House (1002 N. French Street) July 15, 2024 Page 8 4 3 8 8 8. Archeological resources will be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures will be undertaken. Standard 8 does not apply, as there are no known archeological resources onsite. 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment. The project, as conditioned, complies with Standard No. 9. The proposed building alterations will not destroy historic materials, features, or spatial relationships that characterize the property at the building’s primary (south and east) facades. Rather, the proposed alterations will restore the porch to the original conditions by removing a non-original porch enclosure and restoring all existing character- defining features (e.g., existing porch posts, brackets, balustrade, frieze, spandrels, and skirting) to period-correct style. The porch enclosure is known to be a later modification, does not represent a particular style, and does not appear to have taken on any significance in its own right over time. As part of the overall work, the applicant would install concrete pier walls at the porch stairs, which are compatible with the historic porch elements, but that are also differentiated to not create a false sense of history. The work also includes the replacement of non-historic wooden railings. While the existing porch stoop railings were replaced using turned wood balusters, they are not of the same design as the extant historic examples. Moreover, the applicant proposes to install metal handrails and guardrails, simple in form and styling (i.e., no knuckles or twists) and finished in a dark color so that they recede from view, at all secondary entrances, as well as staircases to upper level. The overall simplistic design along with use of distinct materials will ensure that all alterations will be compatible with the historic building. Specifically, the concrete piers and metal railings will be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment. 10.New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired. The project complies with Standard No. 10. The proposed project, as conditioned, is considered generally reversible, as it does not remove essential aspects of the building’s form and materials. Historic Resources Commission 145 7/15/2024