End of Month Index
March 2010

Arranged by Subject and Address Country, State/Province, City, Street: numerical East, alphabetical, numerical West.

CANADA

British Columbia

City of North Vancouver

409 East 1st Street, Y2K Project, Monday, March 15, 2010.

648 East 3rd Street, Wartime House, Monday, March 22, 2010.

662 East 5th Street, Decked Our for Every Holiday, Tuesday, March 23, 2010
719 East 6th Street, Originally Built in 1921, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. 

739 East 7th Street, The Mathieson's Lived Here, Friday, March 5, 2010.
309 East 11th Street, Back af far as 1911, Thursday, March 4, 2010.
225 East 18th Street, Street Undergoing Change, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.
243 West 6th Street, Demolished or Moved, Monday, March 29, 2010.

North Vancouver District

877 Clements Avenue, Under the House, Friday, March 19, 2010.

1426 Draycott Road, Pink Cottage at the End of the Lane, Tuesday, 3/9/10.
2790 Edgemont Boulevard, To Demo or Not to Demo, Wednesday, 3/17/2010.

720 Edgewood Road, The Manton Mansion, Thursday, March 11, 2010. 
627 Elstree Place, The Sun Shires Bright on Elstree, Thursday, 3/18/10.
482 Genoa Crescent, A Mountain Behind, Friday, March 26, 2010. 
3890 Loraine Avenue, Lorraine on Loraine, Tuesday, March 16, 2010.

1120 Marine Drive, Montreal on Marine, Wednesday, March 10, 2010.

4742 Marineview Crescent,  Typical Double Decker, Wednesday, 3/3/10.

854 Montroyal Boulevard, Trilevel on Montroyal, Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

3690 Mountain Highway, Fire in the District, Monday, March 8, 2010. 
343 Seymour River Place, Maplewood Farm Neighbour, Thursday, 3/25/10. 

735 Wellington Drive, The Three Wellingtons, Monday, March 1, 2010.

Vancouver

999 Canada Place, Friday special Feature, Olympic Special Feature,

        The Sails of Canada Place, Friday, March 12, 2010.

B. C.

4354 Metchosin Road, Metchosin, Sunday Church Feature, Saint Mary the

          Virgin, Sunday, March 7, 2010.

1775 Connie Road, Sooke, Saturday Special Travel Feature Sooke Markham

        House,  Saturday, March 13, 2010.
1663 Peninsula Road, Ucluelet, Sunday Church Feature, St. Aiden's on the hill,
        Sunday, March 28, 2010.

UNITED STATES

California

550 Geary Street, San Francisco, Saturday Travel Feature, Adagio in San 

        Francisco, Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Washington

330 Boone Avenue, Sunday Church Feature, St. Aloysius at Gonzaga, Sunday
        3/14/10.

Wisconsin

Highway 54 at the corner with C Road, Seymour, Wisconsin, Saturday Travel

        Feature, Phillips 66 in Seymour, Saturday, March 20, 2010. 

349 North Main Street, Seymour Wisconsin, Sunday Church Feature,

        Sunday, March 21, 2010.

Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, Saturday Travel Feature, "Terry's shack is a
        thing of beauty," Saturday, March 27, 2010.

FEATURES

Saturday Travel Features

1775 Connie Road, Sooke, Saturday Special Travel Feature Sooke 

          Markham House,  Saturday, March 13, 2010.

550 Geary Street, San Francisco, Saturday Travel Feature, Adagio in San 

        Francisco, Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Highway 54 at the corner with C Road, Seymour, Wisconsin, Saturday Travel

        Feature, Phillips 66 in Seymour, Saturday, March 20, 2010.  Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, Saturday Travel Feature, "Terry's shack is a
        thing of beauty," Saturday, March 27, 2010.

 Sunday Church Features

330 Boone Avenue, Sunday Church Feature, "St. Aloysius at Gonzaga", Sunday
         3/14/10.

4354 Metchosin Road, Metchosin, Sunday Church Feature, "Saint Mary the

          Virgin", Sunday, March 7, 2010.
1663 Peninsula Road, Ucluelet, Sunday Church Feature, "St. Aiden's on the
          Hill, Sunday", March 28, 2010.

349 North Main Street, Seymour Wisconsin, Sunday Church Feature,
         "Emmanuel Lutheran Church", Sunday, March 21, 2010.

Special Olympic Feature

999 Canada Place, Friday special Feature, Olympic Special Feature,

        The Sails of Canada Place, Friday, March 12, 2010. 

Photo: Taken of North Vancouver water front, city, and mountains from Wall Street, Vancouver in 2006 by SW.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Street Undergoing Change

The 200 block on the south side of East 18th Street in the City of North Vancouver is on the march. The house on the corner lot has been demolished and a modern trim multifamily housing built. The houses on the next two lots have been demolished. Only a couple of trees, some rough low brush, and the entrance sidewalk and steps to where the houses were remains. A church like looking house sits on the next lot with no notice of demolition in its future. To the east of it is 219 and 221 East 18th Street, a side by side duplex with a wrought iron fence across the front yard. Here a demolition permit has been applied for. And then we come to the house in the photo above, 225 East 18 Street, that also has a demolition permit applied for it. So it looks like it is the hopes of the developers that the possibly 6 lots to the east of the corner complex at East 18th Street and St. George's Avenue  will become another modern trim multifamily housing complex. Time will tell.


As to the history of the house at 225 East 18th Street, there are no entries in either the Building Permit book or the City Directories until around 1960. Then Joseph R. and Kathleen Walsh are reported as owners. Joseph was employed as an assistant accountant at Clarke-Simpkins. In 1971 Donald Wilson was the owner and the proprietor of Wilson's Gifts and Coffee Lounge. In 1980 Doughlas J. Renforth lived in the house. He was employed by Pacific Truck and Trailer Ltd. By 1991 Don and Karen Wilkins had moved to 225 East 18th Street. Don was an accountant at B. C. Tel. In the year 2000 children were photographed in front of the house during Suzanne Wilson's Y2K Project, Your House/Our Home so a young family was living there at that time. A photo of the house is on file at the North Vancouver Archives as part of that project.


Two interesting features of the house at 225 East 18th Street are the view and the front low stone wall. If you look through the bare branches of the large tree on the right of the photo above you can see Burrard Inlet. This could also be the view from the back of the house. The front low stone wall looks like it has been there for some time and could tell the more of the history of the house than could be found in research at the North Vancouver Archives.


Demolition: Permit applied for in February 2010.
Photo: Taken in February 2010 by SW.

Appendix

243 West 6th Street

In April 2011 Suzanne Wilson photographed the home that was moved from 243 West 6th Street, North Vancouver in its new home at 301 Stern Rd., Fanny Bay, B.C. (See photos below.)

Monday, March 29, 2010

Demolished or Moved

To be demolished or moved, that is the question. Both are possibilities for the 1921 house built by A. A. McLean at 243 West 6th Street. The architect for the 1921 house was G. D. Curtis. He designed it for owner Alexander McLean, a compositor for the World newspaper.  The contractors that built this $2900 house were John Mclean & Sons. (City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory 1994, page 154.) In 1925 Alexander McLean added a $100 garage. He was still living in the house in 1933. "Famous Canadian artist, E.J. Hughes (1913-2007), lived in the house with his grandfather, John McLean, and uncles, Alexander and John McLean, for four years (1929-1933) while studying at Vancouver's School of Decorative and Applied Arts."(See Link 2.)

After Alexander McClean there were a series of owners. Mrs. Mary Sloane, a widow, owned it in 1940. J. A Renfrew a salesman at an establishment at 123 East 3rd Street owned it in 1950. David J. and Vivian M. Nicoll owned it in 1971. David still owned in in 1971 and continued to work making signs at a company at 1140 Lonsdale. However in 1971 Mrs, Elsie G. Millar an accountant at Borsholt Furniture also was a resident at 243 West 6th Street. Y. Marisol lived there in 1980 and Frederick L. Willis is listed in both the 1991 and 1995/96 City Directories and year 2000 phone book.


The present owners of the 89 year old Craftsman style house are Douglas Fugger and Abigail Kinch. They purchased the heritage home in 2008 intending to renovate it. However, they couldn't reach an agreement with the city over the renovations and decided to demolish it and build a new house. After much jockeying they got the demolition permit but then came up with the idea of giving to anyone that would like to move it. Nickel Brothers house moving suggest that the price of moving it locally would be about $75,000. A final solution is hoped for by mid-April 2010. 

The quaint house with the sun room entrance hall sits on the south side of Ottawa Gardens. The front porch and door are on the left side of the windowed sun room. A living room fireplace is also evident in the photo above. There are also three bedrooms, a den, a dining room, and a kitchen with a nook.  All are wonderfully lit with many multipane windows.  To see all these lovely rooms look at the web site reference to interior photos in Link 2. Ottawa Gardens is a wide boulevard on West 6th Street between Chesterfield Avenue and Mahon Avenue. St. Edmunds Catholic Church anchors Ottawa Gardens on the west side.


Thank you: To Nickel Brothers for the information and photos on their web site-Link 2.
Photo: Taken in February 2010 by SW. There is also a photo on file at the North Vancouver Archives as part of Suzanne Wilson's Year 2000 Project, Your House/Our Home.

Link 1: http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/northshoreoutlook/news/82818882.html?period=W&mpStartDate=01-20-2010&
Link 2: http://www.nickelbros.com/102431.html  
Later Note: One night in May 2010 the house was moved, first to the Automall at the foot of Fell Street in North Vancouver, then on a barge, finally to its new home on a water front lot in Fanny Bay on Vancouver Island.  It was sold for $1.(Thank you to Sharon Proctor editor of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives publication  the "Express" for this information.)
2011 Note: In April 2011 Suzanne Wilson photographed the home at its new location at 301 Stern Rd., Fanny Bay.  Photographs are available on request and at the North Vancouver Archives.
Ref# 10-243-1
Located: Vancouver Office: Vancouver
Price: $75,000.
Sq feet: approx 1800 (over two floors)

Dimensions:

Bedrooms: 3

Bathrooms:1

Floors:original fir

Roof:asphalt shingle

Exterior:wood shingle

Heat Type:

Type: craftsman

FEATURES
This classic craftsman style house is ready for another life. Built some 80+ years ago it still stands the test of time. Upgrades yes but the overall feel of the house has remained. Two bedrooms upstairs with a master bedroom on the main floor. Check out the floor plan and make your offers today. Call for details.

House HIstory: This house was designed by George D. Curtis, Architect in 1921. The one-storey bungalow was built for Alexander McLean, a compositor for the World newspaper.
Famous Canadian artist, E.J. Hughes (1913-2007), lived in the house with his grandfather, John McLean, and uncles, Alexander and John McLean, for four years (1929-1933) while studying at Vancouver's School of Decorative and Applied Arts.
click for more interior photos
 

Ref# 10-243-1

St. Aidan's on the Hill

Ucluelet British Columbia is a small natural harbor town on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island is 290 miles long and a 1 1/2 hour ferry ride from the mainland of British Columbia. To then get to Ucluelet is another 2 1/2 hour drive through small towns and then across the mountains. Until the 1950's the only access was by car to Port Alberni about in the center of the Island, and then by boat, probably the rough and ready Lady Rose. In fact, until the 1970's only a gravel logging road could be used for the the trip up one side of the mountain "switch backs" and then down the other side to the wild west coast rain forest that lead to the highway along the ocean and to Ucluelet at the south end and Tofino, an even smaller town, on the north end. When you reached Ucluelet all purchases cost 20 cents more per pound because of the freight charge. Today a paved road extends all the way to Ucluelet, Tofino, and Pacific Rim National Park. (See Link 3.)

Ucluelet means "people of safe harbor" in Nootka, the name of the Native Peoples that first populated the area. In 1870 a trading post was established and settlers followed in 1890. In 1898 the Presbyterians built the first Mission. In 1903 a lighthouse, telegraph station and lifeboat stations were added. The town became incorporated in 1952 and today there are 1500 residents.

St. Aiden's on-the-hill sits at the top of the hill at the intersection of Peninsula Road and Main Street, the street that leads down to the waters of Barkley Sound and the town pier. Across the street from the church is the Coop making this corner the hub of the town. The church was built by the Anglican Diocese of B.C. in 1952. The prominent bell tower with the cross on it was added at a later date. St. Aiden's is named after a Celtic saint and for that reason Celtic liturgies are used from time to time. The minister is shared with the congregation of the Anglican church in Tofino and lay people help in leading the service and music. The entrance door to the church is on Peninsula Road, the opposite side of the church to what is seen in the photo above. The sanctuary is in the left side of the church photo with the altar in the punch out area where the window with the cross can be seen. The sanctuary can seat 60 to 100 people, however, in the early 1970's only about 20 people actually attended the 9 am Sunday worship service. Joan Scander the present minister reports even less than that in the pews on Sundays. The church at 1663 Peninsula Road is also rented out for community events.

Thank You: For additional information about the church to Joan Scander

present minister at St. Aiden's.

Note: St. Aiden's was attended by Suzanne Wilson when she lived on Long Beach in the early 1970's. Her husband was the district school librarian.

Photo:Taken in 2006 by SW.

Link 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucluelet

Link 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island

Link 3: http://www.longbeachmaps.com/parks.html

Saturday Travel Feature
"Terry's shack is a thing of beauty..."

The "shack" in question is the ice fishing house of Terry Frank of Sherwood, Wisconsin. His actual home is on the shores of Lake Winnebago, but each February with thousands of others he heads for his "shack" to try to spear the elusive sturgeon. "Try" is the operative word for as his niece says, "He has been spearing for a bazillion years." However, she continues on, "and has never even seen a sturgeon." Liz.

Lake Winnebago is the largest fresh water lake in Wisconsin. It is 30 miles long and 10 miles wide. Its depth averages 15.5 feet with a maximum of 21 feet. Before the ice fishing is allowed the thickness of the ice must be 20 inches. Roads from the boat landings to the ice shanties are marked with Christmas trees: 2 trees=1 mile out, 3 threes= 2 miles out, etc. There are bridges over large cracks. There are about 4000 ice fishing shacks and 10,000 fishermen. They come out to their shacks by ATV, snowmobile or snowshoes. (Notes from Liz.)

The " shack is built on wood blocks so it doesn't freeze to the ice then you pack snow around it for insulation and to keep any stray light from getting in. The only light in the shack comes up through the hole in the ice. It glows an eerie green. The shack is small; just wide enough to cover the hole and long enough for the door to open so two people can sit over the hole and maybe 3 people can stand behind them. Terry has a car radio hooked up to a battery, ad two tanks of propane strapped to the back wall for the heater. It was like a sauna inside..."Liz The actual hole is cut with a chain saw and in this shack it is 18 feet deep and is angled for better visibility. PVC is lowered down to the bottom of the lake to also aid in seeing the fish. Hand carved lead weighted decoys with copper fins are also lowered into the hole. A spear with a rope attached it is throw down the hole at any sign of the fish. (Notes from Liz.)

Sturgeon are caught. One of those caught this year was a 6 foot long pregnant female weighing 110 pounds. The head was almost the size of a humans and the fins were as big as a man's hands. (Described by Liz.)

"Ice fishing"

"Ice fishing is popular on Lake Winnebago. It is not uncommon for 10,000 cars parked on Lake Winnebago during the ice fishing season.^[2] Expansion cracks on the ice are bridged. Many cities along east and west shores plow roads on the icy surface.^[2] Saugerwhite bass catches.^[2] and walleye predominate.

"The spear fishing season for sturgeon is in February. The first season of regulated sturgeon spearing was in 1903, when an eight-pound limit was introduced.^[6] All sturgeon spearing was banned from 1915 until 1931. The lake had the largest population of sturgeon in the United States in 2003.^[6] The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources regulates the number of fish taken each year." Link.


Thank you: To cousin Kay's daughter Liz who e mailed me about her adventure ice fishing with the family on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. As a child Suzanne Wilson visited with her cousin Kay at her parent's cottage on Lake Winnebago. 
Photo: e mailed from cousin Kay's daughter Liz, then printed, photographed by SW, downloaded to computer, photo shopped, hence the "arty" look.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Winnebago

Friday, March 26, 2010
A Mountain Behind

468 Genoa Crescent is the first of two homes on this blocked slated for demolition.  The other is at 482 Genoa Crescent.  Genoa Crescent is tucked between Hermosa Avenue and Vienna Crescent just south west of the Delbrook Avenue  and Montroyal Boulevard intersection. At this point you have driven up Delbrook Avenue near to the base of the north shore mountains. This is evident in the photo above as you can see the slope of Mount Fromme behind the house.

The house at 468 Genoa Crescent was built for $13,000 in 1958 by E. A. Sinkler.  In 1962 E. G. Sinkler added a $250 sundeck. The sundeck also gave the house a covered carport. By 1971 Vernon C. Gouchee and his wife Gwendolyne M. were living in the house. Vernon was a salesman for Northland Commercial Sales.  In the 1980 City Directory the house was reported as vacant.  Jack and Jessie Pendygrasse owned the house in 1990.  Jack was employed by Chevron Canada.  The 1995/96 City Directory could not verify a resident at the 468 Genoa Crescent address.  At the time of the 2010 photograph this typical 1958 North Vancouver  house was a rental.


Demolition: Application for Permit in February 2010.
Photo: Taken in February 2010 by SW.

 

Thursday, March 25, 2010
Maplewood Farm Neighbour

The blue house with the brighter blue front steps at 343 Seymour River Place once had a different address.  Before 1960 it was part of Riverside Drive. But now both 343 and 405 which is Maplewood Farm share the street name of Seymour River Place.

The house at 343 Riverside Drive was built for $5500 in 1953 by G. Watt.  In 1959 he built a $150 carport.  As indicated by City Directories and telephone books Eva and George have lived there ever since. In 1960, the year his address changed from Riverside Drive to Seymour River Place, George was working as a yardman at Seaford Sales.  In 1971 and 1980 he was a laborer and sorter at Northcoast Forest Products. By 1990 George had retired. 

"The History of Maplewood Farm"

"In the early 1900's Mr. Akiyo Kogo first discovered this idyllic little spot nestled at the foot of Mount Seymour on the banks of the Seymour River. He could not have known then that this land would be the last remaining farm on Vancouver's North Shore.

During the twenties, the farm developed into a thriving dairy, delivering fresh milk and cream to customers from Deep Cove to Lonsdale for almost three decades.

By 1970, agriculture had all but disappeared from North Vancouver but luckily the farm land came under the protection of the District Parks Department, being preserved for future generations to enjoy a truly rural experience in our ever expanding urban area.

"Officially opened to the public in 1975, and now home to over 200 domestic animals and birds, Maplewood Farm strives to provide a unique experience, incorporating enjoyment, education and a recollection of the rural heritage of this pastoral 5 acre setting." Link.

Part of Maplewood Farm is directly behind the house at 343 Seymour River Place. The moo's and quack's of  the animals of Maplewood Farm can be heard from the backyard. The Watt family lived in the house for at least 57 years. That is three more years that the Facer family at 564 Granada who lived in their house about 54 years. (See Blog post February 23, 2010.)

Demolition:  Permit applied for in February 2010.

Photo: Taken in February 2010 by SW.

Link:  http://www.maplewoodfarm.bc.ca/

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Originally Built in 1921

The original house built in 1921 at 719 East 6th Street cost only $1000. The owner was E. Henderson, the same owner that built a $500 addition in 1923. Although this was a very small one storey house, at least one of the other homes on the street that had already been built in 1915 was quite stately. That was the McAllister Residence at 736 East 6th Street. It was built in the Late Edwardian style and decorated with Craftsman motifs. It still stands and a description and photo are in the City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory 1994 page 76. Both of these homes are east of Queensbury Avenue in the Queensbury area of the City of North Vancouver. In the very early years it was thought by some that Queensbury Ave., not Lonsdale Ave. would become the main drag of the City of North Vancouver.

Starting in the 1930's there were many owners of 719 East 6th Street. By 1931 John T. Moriarty had become the owner. By 1940 it was Mrs. Mary Burgess. In 1950 the owners were May and Robert E. Cadwallader. Robert worked as a fisherman. In 1960 the owners were Patricia M. and Barry J. Gough. Barry worked as an importer. In 1971 the owners were Joan and Douglas Harrower. Douglas was a counterman at Asbestonos Corp. In 1980 Shirley and Robert L. Bitner lived at 719 East 6th Street and Robert was an electrician at Vancouver Shipyards. In the 1991 and 1995/95 City Directories Graham R. Eagle, a draftsman is listed as the resident. Diane Naylor is an additional resident in 1995/96. She was a chef at the North Shore Association for the Mentally Handicapped.

The telephone book lists both Graham and Diane as living at 719 East 6th Street in the year 2000. This was the year their home was photographed for Suzanne Wilson's Year 2000 Photography Project, Your House/Our Home. That year Graham displayed his art work at the home during the Harmony Arts Festival described in the poster below. See Grahams are work  at Link below.

The photo of 719 East 6th Street was taken by Suzanne Wilson as part of her
Year 2000 Photography Project, Your House/Our Home. 2000 photos of homes in the City of North Vancouver were photographed.


In the month of June 2007 Suzanne Wilson celebrated the City of North Vancouver's 100 birthday by distributing to their home owners copies of 1000 photos taken for the Y2K Project. At this time it was discovered that the home photographed at 719 East 6th Street had been demolished and a new home was under construction. The 2008/10 phone book seems to indicate that both Graham R. Eagle and Diane Naylor built the new home and are the present owners.  See Grahams art work  at Link below.


Photo: Taken in the year 2000 by SW.
Reference: The Year 2000 project was donated by Suzanne and Alan Wilson to the North Vancouver Archives and is available for viewing.
Link:  http://www.grahameagle.com/site_map.php?xyz=20

 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RICHARD

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Decked Out for Every Holiday

During the photographing of over 2000 homes in the City of North Vancouver for the Year 2000 Project, Your House/Our Home (see March 22 Blog Post) it was noted that the house at 662 East 5th Street was decked out for every holiday. At Halloween a pumpkin scarecrow even guarded the front porch of the Wartime House (See March 22 Blog Post) from his chair next to the front door. Ghosts hung in the front bushes and side tree.

Since it was built in 1941 many families lived in this well decorated home. In 1945, right at the end of the war, it was Yvonne and John W. Mark. In 1950 it was William J. Ellison Jr., a roofer. In 1960 Ken A. and Marianne Woods were the owners. Ken was an electrician. By 1971 Donald J. and Mary Martin owned the house. Mary was a clerk at The Citizen Newspaper. In 1980 the resident was S. Dennis and in 1991 it was A. Geraldine Sandau. Perhaps Geraldine was new to 662 East 5th Street in 1991 for the 1995/96 City Directory notes that by then she had lived there for 6 years. In 1995/96 another resident is mentioned and that was Terrace S. McCabe.

In the month of June 2007 Suzanne Wilson celebrated the City of North Vancouver's 100 birthday by distributing to their home owners copies of 1000 photos taken for the Y2K Project. At this time it was discovered that the home photographed at 662 East 5th Street had been demolished and a new home had been built.

Photo: Taken in the year 2000 by SW.

Monday, March 22, 2010
Wartime House

"SECOND WORLD WAR HOUSES FOR WARTIME HOUSING LTD.

1941-1942

  "During the Second World War the City of North Vancouver was an important centre for shipbuilding activities.  The sudden influx of workmen for these and other defense projects necessitated the construction of a number of new homes.  As such, in 1941 two hundred new residences were built at 2nd Street and St. George's Avenue, and four hundred were constructed between Fell and Heywood Avenues, while McCarter and Nairne acted as supervising architects for all wartime housing in British Columbia.  In addition, two large buildings, each housing approximately one hundred and eighty bachelors, were built at the corner of 3rd Street and St. George's Avenue.  A number of these smaller wartime residences remain in the City of North Vancouver, however, due to their modular nature, most have been altered or added to over the years.  A recent in-depth study of wartime housing by J. Robert Faulkner has clarified its significance to the development of the North Shore, and identified those examples still remaining in the City; these are listed and described on the following pages."  City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory 1994, page 172.

The house at 648 East 3rd Street is one of these Wartime Houses and a photo and description are shown on page 174 of the City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory 1994. "This is another example of an H-1 single family residence. These houses were 24'x24' in plan, and also built in reverse, such as this model which has the double windows of the living room to the left of the entry."  648 was built in 1941 for $1605.  

In 1945 and 1950 the house was owned by Eric S. and Justine Dunham.  Eric worked as a burner  for the NVSR in 1945 and for the PDD in 1950.  By 1960 Justine was a widow and a factory worker at Schlage Lock.  In the 1968 City Directory the house is listed only as occupied.  And in 1975 there was no answer at all to their requests.  In 1985 the new resident was R. K. Crockett.  And in 1995/96 the occupant is listed as C. Jordan.

The photo of 648 East 3rd Street was taken by Suzanne Wilson as part of her

Year 2000 Photography Project, Your House/Our Home.  2000 photos of homes in the City of North Vancouver were photographed.  Approximately 800 of these were accompanied by some history from the present or previous home owner sometimes including personal photographs. 

In the month of June 2007 Suzanne Wilson celebrated the City of North Vancouver's 100 birthday by distributing to their home owners copies of 1000 photos taken for the Y2K Project.  At this time it was discovered that the home photographed at 648 East 3rd Street had been demolished and a new home had been built.


Photo: Taken in the year 2000 by SW.
Reference: The Year 2000 project was donated by Suzanne and Alan Wilson to the North Vancouver Archives and is available for viewing.

 

Sunday Church Feature

Seymour Wisconsin 1915

Emmanual Lutheran Church at 349 North Main Street in Seymour, Wisconsin was built in 1915. The red brick building with white Bedford stone trim around the trinity front doors features double square steeples with stained glass windows. The larger of the steeples contains a bell tower and clocks on each of its sides. A trinity stained glass window is above the front doors. The sides of the church also feature trinity stained glass windows. The church is on the corner of North Main Street and County Road G. If you travel further down North Main Street you come to the Outagamie Fair Grounds.

Deanna and Jay DeBruin are currently working on the history of Emmanual Lutheran Church. Here are some of the highlights from the Lutheran Standard of March 4, 1939. Rev. Frederick H. Ohlrogge was minister during the erection of the $30,000 church that was dedicated on Jan. 9, 1916. The debt was paid off in five years. The church is 110 feet long and 45 feet wide. The tallest of the square towers is 75 feet high. The front doors are of heavy oak. The Gothic design of the interior features a wooden altar in a large semicircular niche twenty feet wide. A life sized figure of the Lord with arms outstretched stands in the center of the altar and in the lower part a plaque of the Last Supper. The organ is in the rear balcony that seats 100. The main floor seats about 500. Cark Reiman of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a member of the Stained Glass Association of America 1912-1923 was the designer of the interior and the Neo-Gothic stained glass windows.

Emmanual Lutheran was the church of Marie Juergenmeyer, Seymour Wisconsin, grandmother of Suzanne Marie Wilson, North Vancouver B.C., and great-great grandmother of Holly Marie Misner, Spokane Washington.

Suzanne remembers attending the church with her grandmother when she was a young child in the 1940's . It was there she learned the Apostle's Creed. The minister at that time was Rev. Theo Ohlrogge.

Note: See Blog Post February 20 for more about Seymour, Wisconsin.

Thank you: To Seymour Wisconsin residents: Deanna and Jay DeBruin, Ellen Piehl, and Mark Ellis.

Photo: Taken in 2006 by SW.

Link 1: http://seymourwi.com/
Link 2: https://seymourfaith.ctsmemberconnect.net/home-ctrl.do?view=0&grpId=35013

Saturday Travel Feature
Phillips 66 in Seymour

The gas station in the photo above was bought by Martin Juergenmeyer in 1932. It was on Highway 54 at the corner with C Road,  just at the entrance to the small northern Wisconsin town of  Seymour. This original white clapboard building had an office space through the front door and behind the three front windows. An oil room was to the left of the front door. And a mechanic's shop was behind the three large doors on the right. Martin soon added a house on to the back of the building. The house front entrance with a lattice arch was on the left side. There was also a door inside the gas station office to the house and one on the right side of the house out to the garden. To the right of the gas station Martin dug a mechanic's pit with a ramp above.

The house of Marie and Martin Juergenmeyer had two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, and a kitchen. In the kitchen sink along with running water there was a water pump. The gas station office is where Marie kept her treadle sewing machine and where she taught her granddaughter Suzanne how to sew doll clothes. The office also had a glass cabinet candy counter and refrigerated ice cream bin. A round brown crock of water with a wooden handled ice cream scoop sat on the counter. (This crock now sits on the kitchen counter of Suzanne Wilson.) The crank party line telephone was in the oil room.

By the time Suzanne came from her home in Milwaukee to visited her grandparents in the 1940's summers  large weeping willow trees had grown up in the yard to the left of the gas station. Suzanne would break off the bottom branches and make herself  big skirts. Her grandmother Marie would wash Suzanne's hair in water from the rain barrel next to the house. Behind the weeping willow trees was a large flower garden. To the right of the house was a large vegetable garden, a box and screen rack for drying apple slices, and a chicken coop where Suzanne liked to go to eat fresh peas and lick the rainbow ice cream cones her grandfather would scoop up for her. Across the back of the lot the Juergenmeyers planted a 1/2 acre of statis that was sold to the Seymour florist for funeral bouquets. And behind the statis field was a cemetery where the local kids would sit on the tombstones and eat their lunches.

Martin Juergenmeyer ran the Phillips 66 gas station until he died in 1948. Marie then ran it until it was sold and she moved to Kaukauna, Wisconsin.


According to Janice Eick at the Seymour Community Museum in 2001, "the garage was torn town in the "50's and the house was moved around the corner. About in 1996 the house burned down. Now on the corner where the station was located they have a new Mobile station and a new McDonald's."

Seymour Wisconsin should be well known to everyone; the small town west of Green Bay and north of Lake Winnebago is "The Home of the Hamburger". "The Seymour Community Historical Society of Seymour, Wisconsin, credits Charlie Nagreen, now known as "Hamburger Charlie", with the invention of the hamburger. Nagreen was fifteen when he reportedly made sandwiches out of meatballs that he was selling at the 1885 Seymour Fair (now the Outagamie County Fair), so that customers could eat while walking. The Historical Society explains that Nagreen named the hamburger after the Hamburg steak with which local German immigrants were familiar.^[6][7]" Wikipedia.Where as Seymour has only a population of 3,474 during the Outagamie County Fair in July 80,000 people attend. And "each August Burger Fest brings thousands of people to the community for the Ketchup Slide, a parade,the Bun Run, and other festivities. The city also hold the world record for the largest burger, creating an 8000 pound monster hamburger." Link.

Demolition: Torn down in the 1950's. Seymour Community Museum.

Photo: Historic photo, photographer unknown, Photoshoped by SW.

Link:http://seymourwi.com/