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NCMS Design Services
- Staff
- 23 hours ago
- 2 min read
Since March 2016, the North Carolina Main Street Program has partnered with UNCG’s Interior Architecture Department and Center for Community-Engaged Design to offer design assistance to designated Main Street and Small Town Main Street communities. Selected undergraduate and graduate students, known as Main Street Fellows, collaborate with faculty to develop façade rehabilitation and upper-story apartment conversion designs.
NC Main Street and Small Town Main Street may request Design Services below.
Today's Facade Design Highlight
163 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC
Constructed between 1907-1909 by the Coxe Family, 163 N Main Street is a two-story brick commercial building at Salem Street and East Court Street. It is a contributing building located in Rutherfordton’s Main Street Historic District. The lower facade currently features a recessed center entry door flanked by display windows and brick bulkheads. A shingled tripart pent roof occupies the space above the storefront. Planters have been installed on the brick bulkheads and faux ivy leaf panels on the walls of the lower facade. The upper facade has four archheaded windows, each topped with brick lintels. The building is capped with a corbelled brick cornice and string lights.
The building is currently occupied by Michelle Parisou, a global fashion design company and serves as an outlet store and design workshop. The client is requesting to restore the existing storefront with a new color scheme, lighting, awning, and signage to give the facade an elegant design that better reflects Michelle Parisou’s branding. Based on an historic image of the facade we believe that the original transom windows were removed, and the area filled in with brick. We are proposing a couple of design options depending on what is uncovered when the current pent roof is removed.
All proposed facade enhancements are intended to be consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.
