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Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Design Review Board
Name Nancy
Email Address Minty
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Address 14 Talford Place
City Saratoga Springs
State NY
Zip Code 12866
Phone Number 9178035279
Project Name 624 North Broadway
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Project Address 14 Talford Place
Comments Design Review Board re 624 Broadway
The potential site at 624 North Broadway offers an opportunity
to provide a multi-unit building to four residents on what is
arguably Saratoga’s most imposing avenue. A new building will
establish an indelible impression on the street and this is an
opportunity to contribute a structure that addresses and
reinterprets the architectural eloquence of the surroundings.
The houses of North Broadway are the jewels of the Historic
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Homes Tour (Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation)
attended by local residents and visitors. While most of us will
never reside on North Broadway, we all take pleasure in its
grandeur - the houses, the sweeping lawns and the expansive
streetscape.
North Broadway comprises about 45-50 properties mostly
residential and approximately 80 % with historic significance.
Two historic houses, both brick and flat-roofed, are of particular
relevance to the currently proposed design for 624 North
Broadway: 649 North Broadway, 1856, Federal Style (fig. 1),
and 718 North Broadway, 1865, Italianate (fig 2).
The general proportions and details from these houses such as
the regular cadence of windows, the dimensions and
placement of balconies, the use of wood/or wood composite for
surface elements provide models for innovative reinterpretation
at 624 Broadway. Further the relation of the buildings to the
sites - with generous setbacks - is consistent with nearly every
residence on the street, the very attribute that determines the
grace of the neighborhood.
There is so much to work with in the existing context and so
much to be gained by judicious choices. Historic continuity can
underscore a dignified design at 624 Broadway.
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
Nancy Minty, PhD
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