Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Turquoise on a Heritage Street

Little is revealed in the Archive documents about the modest turquoise horizontal clapboard and white stucco house behind the chain link fence at 365 East 9th Street.  There is no listing in the Building Permit book and the first listing in the City Directories is around 1970.  All that is known at that time is that the house was occupied by R.E. Davies. However, the history of its neighbors is a different story.

The City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory of 1994 includes a total of six heritage homes in the 300 block of East 9th Street.  321 with its second floor balcony and saddle bag dormers and 336 with a porch across the front were both built in 1910. The 348 F. Tarn Residence was designed and built by Frederick Tarn for himself in 1911.  The 345 Chubb Residence was designed and contracted by F. W. Garnett in 1913.  This craftsman style house has articulated eave brackets, notched verge boards and window boxes and exposed rater ends. The 334 K. Stewart Residence was designed by F.J. King and later owned by Mr. Darwin who was a principal at Ridgeway School. The last is the 335 home that was built in 1926.

A neighbor reported that he thought two or three homes would be built on the lot at the corner of 365 East 9th Street and Ridgeway Avenue.  The homes will be facing Ridgeway Avenue and the playground of Ridgeway Elementary School.  The school is now undergoing seismic upgrading. 

Demolition Application: Applied for October 2009.

Photo: Taken October 24, 2009 by SW.