UR EAN DESIGN assocrates Nashua Downtown Master Plan
Residential Design Guidelines Typical massing of 89
The Master Plan identifies several sites houses (top)
throughout Downtown for new housing.
These sites fall into two categories: (1) Detait of
tail of entrance
extensions and insertions into old neigh-
(second)
borhoods and (2) former commercial or
industrial sites.
The architectural character of new Perspective of Bronstien
housing should be based upon traditional Homes (bottom)
patterns found throughout and proven
successful in Downtown Nashua. Adher-
ence to guidelines is more critical on sites
adjacent to or within existing neighbor-
hoods.
Essential characteristics of housing
adjacent to or within existing neighbor-
hoods:
* simple, straightforward volumes with
gabled or hipped roofs
* windows and doors with wide but
vertical proportions
* simplified details and trim
* orderly, but not necessarily symmet-
rical relationships between windows,
doors, and overall building mass
* buildings setback approximately 20
feet from the sidewalk, consistent
with surrounding houses, providing a
shallow yard zone.
