Description du lieu patrimonial

The Kincaid Residence is a front-gable house that is located within the residential South Central neighbourhood between Ethel Street to the west and Gordon Drive to the east in Kelowna, B.C.

Valeur patrimoniale

The historic and social value of the Kincaid Residence arises from its association with a series of occupants who were prominent in civic and commercial affairs in the community, including the Kincaid and Millie families. It also has aesthetic and historic value for its unique Dutch Colonial Revival style and use of early Kelowna brick on its front facade.

The house is believed to have been built in 1908-1912 by James Kincaid who came to Kelowna with his wife Jane "Jean" in 1905. James was a carpenter by trade and may have built the house at 924 Laurier Avenue for the Millie family. Henry Herbert Millie was an electrical engineer by trade who started a watch makers business and a telephone system (Kelowna Telephone Exchange was sold to Okanagan Telephone Company circa 1912 and later became part of BC Tel and then Telus) and was a city councillor for a number of years. Subsequent owners were Josiah Adam Shier and his wife Matilda Kirk who came to Kelowna in 1920 and purchased the property. Josiah Shier became a member of Kelowna City Council in 1926 and worked for the Irrigation District. For many years the family ran the home as a boarding house, which was typical of many of the large Kelowna houses at this time. For many years since the conversion, under varying ownership, the house has been used as a boarding house and for other rental purposes.

The house also has aesthetic value as one of the only local examples of the Dutch Colonial Revival style. This house's unique style features a gambrel (barn) roof, brick front facade and wood lap siding, with a bay window and front covered porch.

SOURCE: City of Kelowna, Policy and Planning Department

Éléments caractéristiques

Key elements that define the heritage character of the Kincaid Residence includes its:
- Residential form, scale and massing, expressed by two-storey height rectangular plan
- Steeply pitched truncated gambrel roof (Barn roof) with a dormer on the east and the west sides of the house
- Front brick-veneer walls, made of locally manufactured brick
- Sides and back have horizontal lap siding
- double hung windows and front and side bay windows
- large columned verandah
- associated landscape features include several garden beds and several mature trees