Description du lieu patrimonial

The Alice and Robert Travers Residence is located at 7828 Stanley Street in Burnaby, British Columbia. The historic site consists of a two storey, wood-frame building with a cross-gable roof and dormers on the front and back elevations.

Valeur patrimoniale

Constructed in circa 1914, the house has heritage value primarily for being a house designed by architect Robert Mackay Fripp, for its Arts & Crafts style, and for its connection to the Long and Travers families.

The house has high aesthetic value for the integrity and excellence of its Arts & Crafts style, for the use of local materials (such as cedar), and for its unified composition that is symmetrical and picturesque. It is a grand house that sits high above the street in a beautifully landscaped yard.

The house has historic value for being designed by architect Robert Mackay Fripp in 1914. Previously unknown as a Fripp-designed house, it is one of a handful of extant and confirmed Fripp-designed buildings in the City of Burnaby. Fripp was an architect who followed the British Arts & Crafts movement in all architectural, crafts and societal aspects. He designed numerous buildings in British Columbia, California, England and New Zealand, wrote articles and gave lectures espousing the Arts & Crafts ideology, and was a founding member of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia.

There is cultural value for its association to the original owner of the property. The house was constructed for Robert Damer Travers (1878-1963) and his wife Alice (1880-1970 nee Bagnell) who hired Fripp to build the house in 1914. Robert and Alice came to Canada from Ireland, first settling in Alberta before moving to Burnaby. Travers was a real estate agent for 40 years and has an early and long association with the house. The property is also associated with another owner Arthur Long, who worked in the Water Rights Office in Victoria.

Éléments caractéristiques

Key elements that define the heritage character of the house include:

- Location on Stanley Street; front facade faces Stanley Street.

The form, scale and massing as expressed by its:

- Two-storey height
- Steeply-pitched, cross-gable roof with dormers on the front and back elevations
- Multi-planed facades with projecting bays

The Arts & Crafts design and architectural elements such as the:

- Horizontal wood clapboard siding, with roughcast stucco in the gable ends and on the upper bump-outs
- The flare at the bottom of certain corners of the house
- Wooden triangular brackets supporting the roof eaves
- Crown moldings and friezes
- Deep overhanging eaves
- Bump-outs and projecting bays
- Location and fenestration pattern of window openings, including a series of triple sash windows on the front and side elevations, all with wood frames and casings
- Two internal brick chimneys