FRANKLIN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES 30 Residential Buildings Historic Residential Buildings • Use designs appropriate for the style and age of the building for replacement doors and avoid modern solid-core wooden doors, doors with similar variations, and doors with ornate designs of wrought-iron or similar metals. • Avoid adding new entrances to front facades or where highly visible from the street. Screen and Storm Doors • Preserve and maintain historic wooden screen doors. Leave unpainted doors unpainted. • If new screen doors are desired, match screen and storm doors to the design of the entrance, such as matching the rail and stile arrangement of the original door. • Use wood or aluminum screen doors with anodized or baked enamel finishes, or that have been primed and painted a color to complement the entrance. • Design with large expanses of screening or glass to maintain visibility of the original door. Windows • Preserve and maintain historic windows and historic window openings. • Avoid adding new windows to the front facade or readily visible facades. • Design new or replacement windows to have historic profiles and dimensions and a double-hung appearance. Use true divided-light (TDL) or simulated divided-light (SDL) windows rather than snap-in muntins or grids between the glass (GBG) styles. • Design new or replacement windows to match the historic materials found on the building. • Use clear glass in replacement panes on the front facade and where highly visible from the street. • Minimize the visual impact of storm windows by designing them so that they appear to be part of the window. Use a full view storm window design to allow the viewing of the original window from the street.
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