§ 3119.37. Italian Village—Typical architectural characteristics.

The standard for typical Italian Village architecture is characterized by two (2) -story brick houses with grey slate, hipped roofs or flat roofs. Chimneys extending from the ridge line of a roof predominate. Most roofs have moderate overhangs with hanging or box gutters.

All facades of the brick houses are simple in composition, composed of areas of soft-burned red brick laid up in common header bond with brick areas exceeding the combined door and window areas. Doors and windows are located from the corner of a structure a distance as great as or greater than their width.

Typical windows are double-hung with a height to width ratio of approximately two (2) to one (1) and a single vertical muntin in the center of each sash. Most windows and doors have cut stone lintels and sills with Roman-arch brick heads being employed above some. Many of the stone lintels contain incised relief of various designs on their faces. Doors are usually four (4) -panel design with an occasional use of glass. Foundations are constructed of large cut stones laid in mortar.

Wrought iron and stone fences, simple in character, bordering on the brick walks, which in most cases extend to the cut stone curbing of the street, are erected at the front of most of the properties. In some cases, the fence completely surrounds the property. Cut stone steps with carved stone buttresses are found at the front entrance of some of the larger houses.

The general scale of the structures within the Italian Village and their relationship, one to another, is intimate. The typical house is approximately twenty-five (25) feet by forty (40) feet. Many houses are located at the front of a thirty (30) foot by eighty (80) foot lot.

All construction, reconstruction, alteration or demolition shall be in conformance to and compatible with the above characteristics; the guidelines for Italian Village adopted by the commission, approved by council and published; such other standards as may be adopted by the commission from time to time in conformity with C.C. 121.05; the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Preservation Projects; and the standards contained in Chapter 3116. C.C.

(Ord. 2229-04 § 6 (part).)

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