Thursday, February 18, 2010
Two White Pillars and a Big Addition


Raine R. Sume built this house at 3780 Mountain Highway.  He was the owner in 1954 and the house construction cost $8000.  He continued to live there in 1960 when he was working as a mechanical engineer at Crowther McKay and Associates.  His wife was Mary L. Sume.  By 1971 Joseph A. Philp and his wife Ellinor had bought the house.  Joseph worked at Block Brothers Realty.

In 1980 Arthur and Leona Teske lived in the house.  Arthur was a contractor.  He had retired by 1991.  Three people are reported as living in the house in the 1995/96 City Directory: Arthur and Leona Teske, and James Teske, a student.
The year 2000 phone book lists Art Teske as the resident at 3780 Mountain Highway.  And the 2008/10 phone book lists both Arthur and James living at the same address on Ross Road.  No information regarding the large addition on the right hand side of the photo was found.


It may be noted that entries from City Directories after the year 2000 are not mentioned.  This is because the year 2000 was the last year the City Directory was published.  Following that date some information as to house residents was listed on the internet.  However, this information changed as the residents changed addresses.  There is no longer a permanent hard copy record of home owners, residents, their spouses, and their place of employment.  Large bound books of this information were published starting in the late 1800s.  A complete set is available at the Vancouver Archives and for most  years at the North Vancouver Archives.  The type of research done on 2780
Mountain Highway will not be available in the future.  The internet and concerns of privacy are reasons given for the termination of the publishing of the City Directories.


Demolition Permit: Applied for October 2009.
Photo: Taken in December 2009 by SW.