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Heritage Advisory Panel Meeting July 28, 2020
SLIDE 2 423 Durban Street (DHP00147)
Proposal:
- Replace all upper and lower cabinets
- Replace sink
- Replace countertop with wood or granite
- Install dishwasher to the right of the sink
- White subway tile backsplash
- Replace linoleum floor with white and
black penny tile
- stove hood above new stove
- Replace table in nook with wood top to
match dining room wood floor inlay
- remove inside door
- Replace ad hoc shelving between doors
with cabinets matching all other kitchen cabinets
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423 Durban Street (DHP00147)
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423 Durban Street (DHP00147)
SLIDE 5 423 Durban Street (DHP00147)
Heritage Value
- One of the most distinctive
examples of the California bungalow style in the most significant streetscape of such structures in the city
- Owner/builders were one of the
most prominent WW1 speculative housing companies
- Original owners occupied the
house for 85 years Exterior Character Defining Elements
- All elements related to the 1912
design, including form and massing
- Oriental style gabled entry porch with
roof truss on paired square supports
- n stuccoed battered piers
- Paired stepped brackets with
triangular elbow braces in the gables
- Open eaves and exposed rafter tails
- Double-coursed shingle cladding
- Two stuccoed chimneys
- Gabled, cantilevered square bay
window
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Interior Character Defining Elements
- red-stained woodwork, beams and
panelling
- built-in sideboard and bookcase with
Arts and Crafts hardware
- painted dining room frieze
- breakfast nook off the kitchen with
built-in table and bench
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423 Durban Street (DHP00147)
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423 Durban Street (DHP00147)
Proposed Kitchen Style Examples
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423 Durban Street (DHP00147)
Ad-hoc cabinets and interior door to be removed
SLIDE 10 1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
Proposal
- Repair, refinish, repaint
existing entry doors, replace glazing
- Replace exterior doors on side
and rear to historically correct doors
- Reinstate missing original
window on east elevation
- Repave entry walk
- Install new brick and metal
fence on Fort Street
- Add wood fence to side lot
lines and Meares Street
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
SLIDE 12 1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
Heritage Value
- Aesthetic value as an excellent
example of the Queen Anne style with Eastlake detailing (after British architect Charles Eastlake)
- Identical detailing to 1141 Fort
Street Character Defining Elements
- multi-hipped roof
- red brick chimneys
- wall dormers
- double-hung windows with pointed-
arch upper sashes.
- Tall, narrow windows with details
such as hoods, mouldings, scrolls, brackets or wood blocks
- soffits on the porch
- angled bay windows
- Exterior cladding consisting of V-
groove siding with a brick foundation and basement level V-groove siding
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
Historic Photo- fence
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
From Meares Street
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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1133 Fort Street (DHP00143)
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
Proposal
To authorize minor amendments to the approved permit plans to reflect changes and alterations to the design made during construction.
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
SLIDE 26 840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
Statement of Significance
Heritage Value
- 60-year commercial use
- Design by noted architect
C.E. Watkins
- Historical association with
pre WW1 real estate boom and transit oriented development along Fort St. Character Defining Elements
- Modest, functional two-storey
Edwardian design and detailing
- Triple, sheet metal cornices
- Cast iron columns
- Wood frame storefront glazing
- Proportionally spaced, second
storey window openings
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
Pre-construction Base of columns covered under concrete and covered by flashing detail Post Construction
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
New molding re-creates the visible portions of the column base
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
Approved Constructed
Canopy Design Gate Design Façade juncture Canopy Design Gate Design
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
Drawings showed seamless juncture between new and old construction. As constructed, there is a visible offset
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
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840 Fort Street (DHP00146)
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1611 Quadra Street (DHP00144)
Proposal:
To install a retractable awning into the masonry wall of St. John the Divine Anglican church, on the south side of the building facing Mason Street
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1611 Quadra Street (DHP00144)
SLIDE 37 1611 Quadra Street (DHP00144)
Heritage Value
- Built in 1912 to replace the first
St John’s, which was a prefabricated metal building
- High Victorian Gothic Revival
style
- Presence as a visual landmark
Character Defining Elements
- Scale, form and massing
- Picturesque asymmetry with steep
copper spire, light coloured quoins and window surrounds in contrast to dark red brick
- Arched, stained glass windows
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1611 Quadra Street (DHP00144)
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1611 Quadra Street (DHP00144)
Canopy type- 'Royal Marcesa retractable awning'
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1844 Hollywood Crescent (DHP00148)
Proposal:
To remove a chimney that is not visible from the street
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1844 Hollywood Crescent (DHP00148)
SLIDE 42 1844 Hollywood Crescent (DHP00148)
Heritage Value
- An imposing example of an arts
and crafts shingle-style residence built in 1912 Character Defining Elements
- Arts & Crafts details, 2-storey
gabled roof, front porch and second storey balcony
- Battered porch columns
- Bracketed eaves and masonry
balustrades on porch steps
- Wall surfaces sheathed in wood
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1844 Hollywood Crescent (DHP00148)
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1844 Hollywood Crescent (DHP00148)
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1844 Hollywood Crescent (DHP00148)
