Thursday, April 1, 2010

Come Build a House

Although there are no listings in the Building Permit book or City Directories at the North Vancouver Archives until around the 1960's the style of this house at 302 East 6th Street seems to indicate it could have been built in the 1940's. Two homes in the City of North Vancouver Heritage Inventory 1994 are built with similar Streamline Moderne features. (See pages 176 and 177.) What indicates this period in the 302 East 6th Street home are the rounded corners of the exterior walls at either side of the front door.

By 1955 Jason N., retired, and Victoria M. Dezell were living in the house. In 1971 two families are reported as residing there: Danato and Anna Damico and in the rear Miss S. Moore. Donato was a laborer for the West Vancouver Muncipality. Susan Moore was a hairdresser at Queensbury Coiffures.

From 1989 to 1994 Maggie Paquet rented the house.  The actual owner of the house at this time lived near Kerrisdale in Vancouver. Maggie Paquet published two books and was involved in the publication of many more, either as editor or designer. She was also responsible for the saving of many trees.

"The little weeping birch tree in the photos used to be in front of a nearby house, second in from St. Andrews on the same side of 6th. I salvaged it when those old houses were torn down for the condos on that corner. I also made a presentation to the City of North Van to save the big tree beside "my" house, as well as a number of others in the block with the heritage house around which the condos were built. The beautiful chestnut on Keith is one I'm particularly proud to have been responsible for its still standing. I was interviewed by the Vancouver Sun for all the ruckus I made about all the demolition on that street and a fellow who moves houses actually bought a few of them and moved them to various location, I think on Vancouver Island, so I also saved a few houses, as well as a few trees. " (From 2011 e mail by Maggie Paquet.) 

The photos in this blog post were taken during the year 2000 as part of Suzanne Wilson's Year 2000 Photography Project, Your House/Our Home. The original home, lot after its demolition, and four construction photos give information as to how a house was built in the year 2000. Come build a house.

May 2000

July 2000

August 2000

September 2000

December 2000

Thank you: To Maggie Paquet for her 2011 e mail.

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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