Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
1898/01/01 à 1898/12/31
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2009/03/19
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
Lawson House is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of St. John and King Streets in the town of Windsor, NS. Set among several grand historic homes on King Street, Lawson House stands out as a distinctive part of the streetscape. The land and building are included in the municipal designation.
Valeur patrimoniale
Lawson House is valued as one of two buildings in Windsor designed by William Critchlow Harris and for its association wtih prominent Windsor residents H.B. Tremain and W. Medford Christie. It is one of the first buildings where Harris incorporated round towers with conical roofs - a later trademark of his style.
On October 20, 1897, the "Hants Journal" reported the advance of a great fire that ended with Walter Lawson's house on King Street. In 1898 Lawson, a banker, commissioned Harris to design a new home to be built on the same site. Harris was also working on St. John's Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery further north on King Street.
In 1903 the house was sold to Hadely Brown Tremain, a barrister and Member of Parliament for Hants (1911 to 1921). Tremain is credited with having the 112th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces stationed at Fort Edward, Windsor.
It was circa 1898 that Harris began to incorporate towers in his designs. The towers, along with the arched veranda, decorative scalloped shingles on the second storey, the large hipped dormer and decorative leaded and stained glass windows distinguish Lawson House from any other dwelling in Windsor. In 1907 Lawson House was sold to W. Medford Christie, a Town Solicitor and the house remained in the Christie family until 1971.
A third tower was added with a single storey addition on the south end of the house in the 1980s. While this tower is sympathetic to the original design in its use of decorative shingles and an archway, it does detract from the symmetry of the original design.
Source: Windsor-West Hants Joint Planning Advisory Committee Heritage Property files
Éléments caractéristiques
Character-defining elements of Lawson House include:
- wood frame construction;
- original location;
- two original round towers with conical roofs;
- clipped gable roof;
- wood shingle exterior with scalloped shingles on upper storeys;
- large hipped dormer;
- central doorway;
- partially enclosed veranda with archways.
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Nouvelle-Écosse
Autorité de reconnaissance
Administrations locales (N.-É.)
Loi habilitante
Heritage Property Act
Type de reconnaissance
Bien inscrit au répertoire municipal
Date de reconnaissance
2000/04/14
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
1985/01/01 à 1989/01/01
Thème - catégorie et type
- Exprimer la vie intellectuelle et culturelle
- L'architecture et l'aménagement
- Un territoire à peupler
- Les établissements
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Résidence
- Logement unifamilial
Historique
Architecte / Concepteur
Harris, William Critchlow
Constructeur
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Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Windsor-West Hants Joint Planning Advisory Committee 76 Morrison Drive Windsor, NS B0N 2T0 902-798-6900
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Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
26MNS0001
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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