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Historic board approves metal roof for 19 South Swinton Avenue with option to use metal shingle
Summary
The Delray Beach Historic Preservation Board approved a certificate of appropriateness and level-1 site-plan for 19 South Swinton Avenue to replace aging asphalt shingles with a metal roof; the board recommended a metal shingle as the preferred material but allowed standing-seam as acceptable.
The Historic Preservation Board on Sept. 17 approved a certificate of appropriateness and level-1 site-plan for 19 South Swinton Avenue to replace an aging asphalt shingle roof with a metal roofing system. The board voted to allow a standing-seam metal roof but indicated a metal shingle (three-dimensional/architectural shingle in metal) would better preserve the building's historic character.
Why it matters: The house sits inside the Old School Square Historic District, and the board applied the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and local visual compatibility rules to determine whether the proposed material change would be appropriate. The applicant said the existing roof is at the end of its useful life and sought a long-lived…
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