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HARB approves façade alterations for 12 North Second Street hotel and restaurant project
Summary
The board approved a multi-building façade alteration package for 12 North Second Street that restores historic openings in the older corner building and adds a new, lower-scale hotel addition and restaurant space.
The Columbia Bureau Historical Architectural Review Board voted Jan. 8 to approve façade alterations and restorations at 12 North Second Street, a mixed project that combines restoration of a historic corner ‘‘chip factory’’ building with a new hotel addition and planned restaurant space.
Why it matters: The project involves a locally significant historic façade, an infill hotel (described in materials as an 80-room Hilton), and new construction adjacent to preserved masonry buildings. The board focused on materials, window patterns, storefront treatment, and how the new work would maintain the historic streetscape scale.
The applicant team — represented by the firm principal and project architect John Cox and architect Tom Deaver — presented 3-D renderings, elevations, brick samples and enlarged details of replacement windows. The package described restoring/repointing the historic corner…
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