Houses in Historic Districts customarily may display a plaque on the
facade, giving some information about the house. The building date
is commonly prominent, and the name of the house based on the
name(s) of the first owner(s) may be included. The sponsoring
organization, or the name of the Historic District may also be
shown. Some may include an indication of the profession, or some
distinctive achievement, of the first or an early occupant.
Here are examples from the City of Albany, where the Historic Albany
Foundation has sponsored a house plaque
program.
The McKownville Improvement Association is considering sponsoring a
house plaque program for the McKownville - Country Club Highlands
Historic District. Two draft plaque designs are shown below, based
on the more recent Historic Albany example.
Sponsorship would be just for the design, and coordinating the
orders; this would reduce by 15% the price charged by the
manufacturer to an individual homeowner who wishes to install one.
For the smaller (7" by 5½") design shown below, a recently quoted
price would be $203 in bronze, or ~$164 in aluminium.
For the larger (9" by 7") design shown next below, prices would be
about $238 in bronze, or $191 in aluminium.
The smaller design requires some abbreviation of the Historic
District title, because a minimum lettering height (¼inch) is
required for the text to be legible from the casting process.
A larger oval 9 by 7 inches across would permit more text and
information to be shown, but would cost more, and is perhaps too
large in scale for houses in our Historic District. Here is one
example:
The two designs above are each linked to a letter-size pdf page
which will show the plaque at full size when printed (click on
either image).
Differently colored backgrounds are possible.
Sets of images using the smaller draft design for plaques for each
of the contributing houses in the McKownville - Country Club
Highlands Historic District are shown on these pages:
Western Avenue | Waverly Place | Norwood Street | Glenwood Street | Parkwood Street | Elmwood Street
Sets of images using the larger draft design for plaques for each of
the contributing houses in the McKownville - Country Club Highlands
Historic District are shown on these pages:
Western Avenue | Waverly Place | Norwood Street | Glenwood Street | Parkwood Street | Elmwood Street
A list of the occupancy and date
information used to make these designs
return to Historic
District page
