Wardill Residence
755 Terminal Avenue, Nanaimo, Colombie-Britannique, V9S, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
2002/10/07
Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
1945/01/01
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2005/10/05
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
The Wardill Residence is a two-storey, Streamline Moderne style building on a major thoroughfare in a neighbourhood just north of the city centre. The historic place is confined to the building footprint.
Valeur patrimoniale
Built around 1945, the Wardill Residence is one of the best provincial examples of the Streamline Moderne style. This historic style shows the influence of the new discipline of Industrial Design. The horizontal lines and detailing of this building echo the streamlining bands found on most manufactured objects during the 1930s, including radio cabinets, cars, trains and ocean liners.
The Wardill Residence's height and mass, unusual architecture, and its location on a curve on a major thoroughfare make it one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
The Wardill Residence is a tangible reminder of this neighbourhood's earlier character as an upscale, semi-rural, residential neighbourhood. When built, the house was part of a grouping of prestigious homes that lined this section of the road. By the late 1960s, the neighbourhood was becoming increasingly commercial and the area lost much of its previous exclusive residential status.
Source: City of Nanaimo, Development Services Department
Éléments caractéristiques
The character-defining elements of the Wardill Residence include:
- all of the elements of the Streamline Moderne style as expressed in the smooth facade, asymmetrical massing, stucco cladding, horizontal proportions, flat roof, corner windows, and horizontal incised shadow banding in stucco carried across the facade into the window mullions.
- the building's location on a major thoroughfare.
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
s/o
Thème - catégorie et type
- Un territoire à peupler
- Les établissements
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Résidence
- Logement unifamilial
Historique
Architecte / Concepteur
s/o
Constructeur
s/o
Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
City of Nanaimo, Development Services Department
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
DhRx-92
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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