The Morgan Jones house, 317 Allen Street, was once again the subject of review at the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) meeting on Friday. One of the goals of the alterations being proposed by the new owners of the Jacobean and Dutch inspired house, designed by Marcus Reynolds and completed in 1906, was to bring more light into the house, and to that end, changes in the fenestration were proposed for the south elevation of the house. The photograph below, which appeared in a journal called Brickbuilder in 1910, shows the south elevation of the house as it was originally designed.
The proposal for change to windows for the second-floor bedroom at the southwest corner of the house have evolved from a bay window, to large flat window, to the addition of a third window between the two existing openings, with a transom and lintel identical to what is there now. The HPC was happy with that solution.
The windows proposed for the southeast corner of the house, the location of a redesigned kitchen have also evolved. In the latest iteration of the design, they are not as tall as originally proposed. At the HPC meeting on Friday, there was only one change in fenestration that the commissioners found troublesome: a six-pane window, wider than it is high, proposed for an area of the kitchen that will be a breakfast nook. The images below show the east elevation of the house, which faces the driveway and the neighboring house, as it is now and with the proposed changes in fenestration.
Meanwhile, work on the new slate roof of the building, a phase of the restoration granted a certificate of appropriateness previously, is complete. A reader provided this photograph of a section of the finished project.
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| Photo courtesy Nicole Vidor |
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