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Beacon Hill Architectural Commission Hearing

The Commission will hold its monthly public hearing on Thursday, May 18, 2017.

(Use Congress Street as an entrance and exit at City Hall after 5:30p.m.)

The public can offer testimony.

Discussion Topics

  1. Election of Officers
  2. Violations

    17.1076 BH - 36 Joy Street
    Applicant: Isabelle Slotine, 36 Joy Court Condominium
    Proposed Work: Ratify the installation of a street address sign on the gate adjacent to the building (VIO.BH.61).

  3. Design Review

    4:15pm
    17.1168 BH - 57 Pinckney Street
    Applicant: Jeannette Herrmann
    Proposed Work: Install wood handrail painted off-white with metal brackets on one side of the recessed entryway.

    17.1171 BH - 28-32 Derne Street
    Applicant: Laurence Libowitz 
    Proposed Work: Modify Certificate of Appropriateness 15.862BH by enlarging one roof deck; installing stairs to the roof deck; and replacing a window and transom with a door.

    17.1005 BH - 37 Beacon Street, Apt. 62-64 (Continued from 4/2017)
    Applicant: Megan Goltermann, Payne | Bouchier Fine Builders
    Proposed Work: Construct a headhouse and roof deck.

    5:15pm
    17.1020 BH - 13 Louisburg Square (Continued from 4/2017)
    Applicant: James Mellowes, Mellowes & Paladino Architects
    Proposed Work: Install fire hose connection, alarm bell, and plaque on the front façade.

    17.1174 BH - 32-34 Hancock Street
    Applicant: Theodore Touloukian, Touloukian Touloukian Inc.
    Proposed Work: Install kitchen and bathroom vents at each floor on the rear façades.

    17.1152 BH - 73 Chestnut Street
    Applicant: Jennifer Mello, Pomeroy & Co., Inc.
    Proposed Work: Replace paired wood doors at the second floor with paired windows; replace wood windows at the first floor in-kind; remove paint from masonry; repoint; rebuild chimney in-kind; restore wood statue in-kind; restore and paint wood infill gray and front door black; replace roofing membrane system and copper gutter and leader in-kind; and remove the existing sign panel.

    17.1040 BH - 37 Grove Street
    Applicant: Eliott Levine
    Proposed Work: Replace historic black painted wood treads with granite treads; replace non-historic entryway infill with new paneled wood door painted black and multi-light transom and sidelights and side wall paneling all painted off-white; and replace light fixture.

    6:15pm
    17.1166 BH - 9 West Cedar Street
    Applicant: Brigid Williams, Hickox Williams Architects
    Proposed Work: Install two metal handrails on either side of the entryway.

    17.1167 BH - 37-41 Beaver Place
    Applicant: Brigid Williams, Hickox Williams Architects
    Proposed Work: Install pergola on existing roof deck.

    17.1095 BH - 36 Joy Street, Apt. B
    Applicant: Cheryl Carney, JB Sash & Door Company
    Proposed Work: Replace two windows at the first floor on the secondary south façade.

    17.905 BH - 73 Mount Vernon Street
    Applicant: Elliott Olson, Sousa Design Architects
    Proposed Work: Replace deck on rear ell extension; construct deck on main roof; relocate gas meters on front façade to the interior; install new landscaping in the front yard; repair fire escapes and iron railings in the front yard in-kind; replace copper gutters and leaders in-kind.

    7:15pm
    17.799 BH - 3 Joy Street (Continued from 3/2017 and 4/2017)
    Applicant: Guy Grassi, Grassi Design Group
    Proposed Work: Replace rear yard addition; replace rear façade windows; enlarge rear garden wall; remove a headhouse, minor alterations to dormers, replace shingles, and install vents on roof; restore entryway surround; reconstruct front stoop; modify front areaway and walkways; masonry and window restoration; replace dormer windows; install window screens, entry intercoms, light fixture, and fire protection systems.

    17.800 BH - 4 Joy Street (Continued from 3/2017 and 4/2017)
    Applicant: Guy Grassi, Grassi Design Group
    Proposed Work: Replace rear yard addition; enlarge window openings; replace rear façade windows; remove skylight and construct new rear dormer, replace shingles, and install vents on roof; restore entryway surround; modify front areaway and walkways; masonry and window restoration; replace dormer windows; install window screens, entry intercoms, light fixture, and fire protection systems.

    17.801 BH - 5 Joy Street (Continued from 3/2017 and 4/2017)
    Applicant: Guy Grassi, Grassi Design Group
    Proposed Work: Construct rear yard addition; enlarge window openings, relocate fire balcony, and replace windows at rear façade; replace shingles and install vents on roof; replace transom window; remove flagpole; modify front areaway and walkways; remove fire escape; masonry and window restoration; replace dormer windows; install window screens, entry intercoms, light fixture, and fire protection systems.

  4. Administrative Review

    PROJECTS COMPLIANT WITH DISTRICT STANDARDS & CRITERIA
    17.1165 BH - 27 Brimmer Street: Replace slate shingles, copper flashing and wood trim with a black painted finish at the mansard roof in-kind.
    17.1160 BH - 30 Hancock Street, Apt. M: Repoint; clean façade; resurface brownstone lintels and sills using a tinted cementitious stucco.
    15.942 BH - 51 Hancock Street: Extend Certificate of Appropriateness 15.942BH approval with provisos for constructing a roof deck setback 7’-0” from the roof edge with a revised railing design incorporating a four-inch gap at its top rail until May 14, 2018.
    17.1161 BH - 20 Louisburg Square: Replace the copper flashings and reinstall the slate shingles in-kind.
    17.1096 BH - 59 Mount Vernon Street: Repair all of the wood windows on the front façade and repaint black to match existing.
    17.1154 BH - 89 Mount Vernon Street: Restore the wrought iron railings on both stoops and the cast iron fence on the front retaining wall, both with a black painted finish in-kind.
    17.1033 BH - 96 Pinckney Street: Reconstruct two brick chimneys in-kind; replace the "fish scale" slate mansard roof and the roofing membrane system on the flat (main) roof and all of the copper flashing and gutters in-kind; and replace the deteriorated wood trim around the dormer windows in-kind, and painting the trim black.
    17.1108 BH - 96 Pinckney Street: Remove twelve storm windows; replace six two-over-two and six one-over-one, double-hung wood windows at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors in-kind, and painting all of the sashes and brick molds black.
    17.1097 BH - 14 West Cedar Street: Remove the asphalt shingles on the sides of the dormers on both the front and rear roofs and install slate shingles; replace the copper gutters and flashing in-kind; and replace the asphalt shingles in-kind on the non-visible portions of the roof.
    17.1164 BH - 50 West Cedar Street: Repaint front door, window casings, and oriel black and the entryway surround off-white all to match existing.
    17.1107 BH - 79 West Cedar Street: Remove four storm windows; and replace four six-over-six, double-hung wood windows with a black painted finish at the fourth floor in-kind.

    VIOLATIONS
    17.980 BH - 45 Chestnut Street: Repaint front door black; repoint joints to right of front stoop; and replace copper leader adjacent to the stoop (VIO.BH.77).
    17.1173 BH - 39-41 Mount Vernon Street: Remove mechanical vents from secondary north and east façades, and key in brick; relocate some vents to non-visible locations on the secondary east façade (VIO.BH.82).

  5. Advisory Review

    14 Mugar Way
    Applicant: David Hacin, Hacin + Associates
    Proposed Work: Construct a 4-story addition; and modify site landscaping.

  6. Review and Ratification of April 20, 2017 Minutes
  7. Staff Updates
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