2525 St. Charles Ave., 1601 Third St.

Description: New construction of a 11,545 SF three-story, single-family residential building on a vacant lot.  

Previous ARC Recommendations: 

05/16/23: The ARC voted to defer the application for further review. The ARC made the following recommendations:

• The porch is a bit shallow for the scale of the house.  It was recommended that a 12’ depth or similar would be more appropriate.

• The first and second floor entry doors seem out of sync with the other architectural vocabulary.  They felt that they should be a bit grander to reflect aspects of the rest of the design.

• They would like to see examples of one-story side bays included in similar architectural styles.  They were unsure how they felt about a one-story versus a two-story bay but were open to persuasion.

• The proportions of the porte cochere are too wide.  They’d like to see the width reduced.

• The three-story bump up is too narrow.  It should be brought forward toward St. Charles to align with the roof leader. 

• The third-story parapet should extend to the height of the elevator override.  They believe making the third story wider and taller will lend itself better toward unity of massing and proportions.

• The pool equipment bump out at the rear needs to appear as a more integrated design or to be separated from the main building as an accessory structure.

• The parapet height on the second story should be raised to be more in line with the building’s proportions and help to obscure solar panels.

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Current Drawings:

Applicant Response to Previous ARC Comments:

Previous Drawings - 05/16/23:

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