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Community Specific Design Guidelines APRIL 2013 Community Specific Design Guidelines Lockport Main Street, Inc. April 2013 Acknowledgements Western Erie Canal Alliance Lockport Main Street, Inc. Lockport Design Guidebook BOARD OF DIRECTORS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Committee Joe Eicheldinger, President, Charlene Seekins-Smith, Board Chair Timothy Arlington Erie County Ruth L. Earl, Board Vice-Chair R. Charles Bell, Director, Benjamin J. Woelk, Vice President, Timothy Arlington, Board Treasurer Department of Community Development Monroe County Susan Shaft, Board Secretary Doug Farley, Development Director, Kelly Kiebala, Secretary, Cookie Butcher Niagara County Historical Society/ Jody Chesko Orleans County Erie Canal Discovery Center Linda Masters Robert Hagen, Chairman, Paul Reid, Treasurer, Niagara County Elizabeth Swanson McCulloch Historic Preservation Commission Martin Busch, Orleans County Kevin McDonough Ann Marie Linnabery, Asst. David Kinyon, Niagara County Lynn Oswald Director/Education Coordinator, Kal Wysokowski, Monroe County Christopher Parada Niagara County Historical Society Amy D'Angelo, Wayne County Nora Smith Linda Masters Henry McCartney, Erie County Linda VanBuskirk Elizabeth Swanson McCulloch Kevin McDonough Heather Peck, Program Manager Heather Peck Margaret Truax, City Historian CONSULTANT: Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council 50 West Main Street, Suite 8107 Rochester, New York 14614 This project is supported by the New York State Department of State with funds provided under Title 11 of the Environmental Protection Fund and sponsored by the Board of Supervisors of Wayne County. Cover photograph is The Clinton Building merged with Polster Photographs of Lockport, NY. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1 HISTORIC OVERVIEW OF THE CITY OF LOCKPORT……………………………………………………………………………………….....2 HISTORIC RESOURCES IN THE MAIN STREET TARGET AREA……………………………………………………………………………….3 WESTERN ERIE CANAL VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE…………………………………………………………………………………….5 Building Types: Commercial……………………………………………………………………………………………………7 Stores………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7 Brick-front…………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Italianate…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Business Block………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....9 Building Types: Public…………………………………………………………………………………………………………15 Building Types: Industrial…………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 Building Types: Residential……………………………………………………………………………………………………19 HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINES………………………………………………………………………………………...20 Federal (Adam) Style (1780-1820; locally to ca. 1840)..………………………………………………………………………24 Italianate (1840-1885) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….25 Colonial Revival (1880-1955)..…………………………………………………………………………………………………26 Beaux Arts (1885-1930)………………………………………………………………………………………………………...27 Neoclassical (1895-1950)………………………………………………………………………………………………………..28 Craftsman (1905-1930)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………29 Modernistic (1920-1970)………………………………………………………………………………………………………..30 Art Deco………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….30 Moderne Style……………………………………………………………………………………………………………31 International Style………………………………………………………………………………………………………..32 Twentieth Century Building Materials………………………………………………………………………………………..33 iii NEW CONSTRUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..39 Site Design Factors.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..40 Materials and Elements………………………………………………………………………………………………………...42 Signage…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..43 Green Design Elements…………………………………………………………………………………………………………44 LANDSCAPE AND SITE DESIGN……………………………………………………………………………………………………………45 Site and Streetscape Elements…………………………………………………………………………………………………45 Paving and Curbing.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………46 Furniture.…………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………47 Lighting.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………47 Fencing and Walls………………………………………………………………………………………………………………48 Viewsheds and Sight Lines.…………………………………………………………………………………………………….49 DESIGN GLOSSARY……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….50 BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...52 APPENDIX A: Lockport Main Street, Inc. Target Area.…...……………………………………………………………………………54 APPENDIX B: Proposed Design Review Flowchart.…………………………………………………………………………………….55 Unless otherwise noted, all photographs taken by Senior Planner Jayme Breschard Thomann, Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council. iv INTRODUCTION On September 10, 2008, the communities of the Village of Albion in Orleans County, Village of Lyons in Wayne County, and City of Lockport in Niagara County were announced by the Western Erie Canal Alliance (WECA) as the three inaugural designated Main Street communities of the Western Erie Canal Main Street Program—the first certified Main Street® programs in New York State. The Western Erie Canal Main Street Program is an implementation strategy of the Western Erie Canal Heritage Corridor Management Plan, adopted by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in August, 2005. In March 2006, WECA was formed as a non-profit corporation to implement the Western Erie Canal Heritage Corridor Management Plan. The Western Erie Canal Main Street Program is a partner with the National Trust Main Street Center®, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation®. On December 30, 2009, the New York Secretary of State Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez announced that the Western Erie Canal Main Street Program was one of 90 projects across New York State to receive funding from the State Environmental Protection Fund’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (EPF- LWRP). Sponsored by Wayne County, the program proposed the continuation of its general regional coordination duties and to provide technical assistance and training for the downtown revitalization of selected historic canal communities. The Historic Preservation Guidebook is part of the technical assistance and training under the 2009-2010 EPF-LWRP grant award. Phase One of the Historic Preservation Guidebook for the Western Erie Canal Main Street Program was completed in February 2012 and is available for download at the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council (G/FLRPC) website. The Historic Preservation Guidebook has three basic sections: Education Why is historic preservation important? How do we educate our businesses and residents? Organization A “how to” guide for Main Street Program Managers to effectively work with local municipal officials and boards, regional agencies, and state and federal agencies; with a description of their roles as related to historic preservation. Implementation Funding programs and incentives, regulations, and associated review boards. Phase One serves as a basic compendium of online tools, textual resources, definitions, graphs, maps, and interviews for any person who is interested in learning more about preserving the built heritage in the context of business district revitalization. Phase Two is the development of community specific design guidelines for the Village of Albion, Village of Lyons, and City of Lockport. It is anticipated that two more communities will be added to the Western Erie Canal Main Street Program and will also receive community specific design guidelines. The document includes a historic overview of the canal community and an inventory of historic resources within the Main Street Target Area, or the primary commercial center. Architectural design guidelines that enhance overall understanding and interpretation of basic preservation principles are included, along with advisory site and landscape design elements for the Main Street Target Area. This document aims to provide broad historic preservation guidance for historic buildings to local property owners, business owners, and residents. 1 HISTORIC OVERVIEW OF THE CITY OF LOCKPORT The earliest settlement near present-day City of Lockport was about one mile east at Cold Spring, which featured an old Native American trail that provided an early transportation route from Canandaigua to Fort Niagara. Throughout the early nineteenth century, pioneer settlers—mostly Quakers from the Finger Lakes Region—began to arrive in the unnamed community, purchasing land from the Holland Land Company. The construction of the Erie Canal in 1817 not only influenced the prosperity of marketplaces in New York City and along the East Coast with a faster trade route to the western frontier, but afforded the City of Lockport a place in history with a massive engineering effort consisting of a double flight of locks. A decision was made to cut the waterway through the limestone escarpment at a gorge in the area of Lockport. Laborers and merchants flocked to the area when construction began in 1821, bringing tremendous growth to the still unnamed village. By spring of 1821, the settlement was named Lockport and selected as the seat of government for Niagara County in July, 1822. The original locks were completed in 1825, enlarged in 1859, and the southern tier replaced by two lift locks from 1909-1918. Erie Canal trade and use of the canal water to power mills and factories supported the development of Lockport. Significant improvements were made in East Lockport or Lowertown to create a milling and industrial center. Lockport experienced such tremendous growth during the 1820s that the New York State Legislature passed the act for incorporating the Village of Lockport on March