2526 W 37th Ave

St Mary’s Kerrisdale Rectory is a wood shingle-clad house of Arts and Crafts Style, built in 1913 at 5311 Balsam Street. Prolific Vancouver builder and original owner of the property C. A. Hilchey constructed it with local timbers.

This house features many exterior finishes consistent with an Arts and Crafts Home. It’s steeped pitched hipped roof, half-timbering on the top level and shingle cladding below. Its unobtrusive front entrance is embedded into the northeast corner of the house, with a clue to its initial corner lot. The style and paint colour match the church it was once adjacent to. Based on historical directories. However, the early residents of this property did not have occupations affiliated with the church.

In 1964 St Mary’s Kerrisdale added the building to its real-estate portfolio. By 1967 the church used the building to the house they clergy and their families. In 1886 St. Mary’s determined to relocate the house to its current location at 2526 West 37th Ave, and use it for a seniors housing complex.

Source

2021 Conservation Plan and Statement of Significance, prepared by Mountain Heritage