Roedde House

Roedde House was built for Gustav and Matilda Roedde in 1893. Its design is generally attributed to the early B.C. architect, Francis Rattenbury, notable for the Legislative Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria. The architectural style is “Queen Anne revival”, incorporating a cupola, bay windows, upstairs porch, and downstairs verandas. The West End was rapidly becoming a fashionable neighbourhood at the time.

At the urging of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, the house was designated a “heritage building” in 1976. In the early 1980s the City, with the assistance of the Heritage Canada Foundation and the B.C. Heritage Trust, restored the exterior of the house. In 1984 the Roedde House Preservation Society was formed to implement the interior restoration of the house. Today it is part of Barclay Square, a block of preserved heritage houses with mixed residential uses.
The main floor of the house is authentically furnished with examples of middle-class life in the 1890s. In March of 2000 the restoration of the second floor of the Museum, comprising boys’ and girls’ bedrooms, and Matilda’s sewing room, show the complete portrait of family life.

Roedde House Museum was a stop on Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s 2018 West End Heritage Tour.

Source

Roedde House Museum website

More information

http://www.roeddehouse.org/en/about/the-roedde-house-museum/history-xbe