BRENHAM HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD TO CONSIDER EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS AT FORMER POMEGRANATE/FUNKY ART BUILDING
The Brenham Historic Preservation Board will take up a request tomorrow (Tuesday) to alter the exterior of the downtown building formerly belonging to The Pomegranate/Funky Art Cafe for a new business planning to move in.
of The Forge, to be located in the building formerly
belonging to The Pomegranate at 203 West Alamo
Street in downtown Brenham.
(City of Brenham)
The City of Brenham says the property at 203 West Alamo Street was recently sold by Connie Wilder to Michael Breddin and Ed Fulkerson of Leftover Antiques. The new property owners seek to renovate the building to sell antiques, furniture, décor and household items. They plan to brand the building “The Forge”, with the goal of restoring many of its historic attributes to original form.
The board will consider a Certificate of Appropriateness (CoA) application requesting to replace the front, side and rear elevation windows; replace the front and rear elevation doors; remove the awning from the front façade; install copper gas lanterns to the front façade; repair the transom window on the rear façade and make general in-kind repairs to the metal roof and brick façade; and paint the building and trim in Tricorn Black.
City staff recommends approval of the application, with the added request that the property owners use a different paint color for the trim of the building where applicable.
Also at tomorrow’s meeting, board members will hear an update about the work being done at The Barnhill Center to remove and restore the decorative urns on the roof.
The board will meet tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at Brenham City Hall.
Click here to view the agenda packet for Tuesday's meeting.
Anything which helps restore some of the “Yesteryear” look back to Brenham I am always in favor.
It’s the folk who waltz into the Community and immediately want to CHANGE things up topsy-turvy that I oppose.
While the look of the Community of my boyhood is long gone, it is refreshing that some folk “GET IT” and desire to make good on the Old Gal to bring back her past look a bit.