Description of Historic Place

731 Fourth Street is a two-storey wood-frame house situated on the east side of Fourth Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Glenbrooke North neighbourhood of New Westminster.

Heritage Value

731 Fourth Street is valued for its age and architectural design.

Constructed in 1901, this house is one of only two left in the Glenbrooke North neighbourhood that were built in that year, which makes it a rare example of a 1901 house in the neighbourhood. It is one of only nine 1901 houses left in the entire city.

731 Fourth Street is valued for its architectural elements, such as the shingle work (especially the decorative work in the upper portion of the front gable), detail wood trim around the windows on the south and west sides, and its original bevel siding.

Source: City of New Westminster Planning Department

Character-Defining Elements

Key elements that define the heritage character of 315 Sixth Avenue include its:

Siting, Context and Landscape
- side vehicular driveway (now to attached garage)

Architectural Elements
- cross-gabled roof form (original roof forms masked by later additions to the sides and rear)
- shingle work: highly decorative shingle-work in upper portion of front gable
- detail wood trim around windows (on second floor south and west sides only), including decorative semicircular panel for head trim
- original bevel siding at least on second floor of original portion of house