Victoria Road Residence
413 Victoria Road, Nanaimo, Colombie-Britannique, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
2002/10/07
Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
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Date(s) de construction
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2010/05/11
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
The Victoria Road Residence is a small, one-storey, late-Victorian cottage located in one of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, just south of the downtown core. The historic place is confined to the building footprint.
Valeur patrimoniale
Built around 1892, the Victoria Road Residence is a very good example of a late-Victorian cottage with superior carpenter ornamentation, including turned columns, jig-cut detailing and decorative diagonal planking.
An extremely rare, early example of company housing, the Victoria Road Residence is a direct link with Nanaimo’s coal mining history. In Nanaimo, unlike most coal communities, coal companies built very little employee housing, preferring instead to sell workers raw land. This situation afforded many miners some degree of financial and psychological independence. This building, although an exception to the rule, represents the complex, socioeconomic relationships between local coal companies and their workers.
Source: City of Nanaimo Planning Department
Éléments caractéristiques
The character-defining elements of the Victoria Road Residence include:
- all of the elements of a small late-Victorian cottage with carpenter ornamentation, as expressed in the L-shaped plan, entry porch, horizontal wooden drop siding, double-hung wooden-sash windows, turned columns, jig-cut detailing and decorative diagonal planking
- the building's location in one of Nanaimo's oldest neighbourhoods, just south of the downtown core
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Colombie-Britannique
Autorité de reconnaissance
Administrations locales (C.-B.)
Loi habilitante
Local Government Act, art.954
Type de reconnaissance
Répertoire du patrimoine communautaire
Date de reconnaissance
2002/10/07
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
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Thème - catégorie et type
- Un territoire à peupler
- Les établissements
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
Historique
- Résidence
- Logement unifamilial
Architecte / Concepteur
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Constructeur
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Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
City of Nanaimo Planning Department
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
DgRx-133
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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