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Historic board rejects metal roof request for 703 E. 14th Street, citing Secretary of the Interior standards

5778309 · September 4, 2025
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Summary

The board denied a request to replace shingles with a 26-gauge silver galvanized metal roof on a 1946 contributing house (the S. H. House), citing Secretary of the Interior standards and the property’s architectural character; a neighboring property with a metal roof was noted as separate precedent.

The Ocala Historic Preservation Advisory Board voted to deny a certificate of appropriateness for replacing an existing shingle roof with a 26-gauge silver galvanized metal roof at 703 East 14th Street, a contributing property known in the meeting as the S. H. House.

City staff told the board the house was built in 1946 in an A-frame vernacular style and that a near-identical…

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