3622 W 3rd Ave

The heritage house at 3622 West 3rd Avenue represents a sophisticated, regional hybrid of English and North American styles current at the turn of the century. Listed in the “B” category of the Vancouver Heritage Register, the house was built in 1912. The front elevation of the house unites the precepts of the English Aesthetic Movement and the local Arts and Crafts idiom. The influence of the English Aesthetic Movement is most evident in the “artistic” asymmetry anchored by the front porch and reinforced by the placing of fenestration and bay windows. The influence of the regional Arts and Crafts movement is most evident in the massing and the selection/disposition of materials. A broad gable roof terminates in a deep soffit with notched barge-boards over supporting brackets.

The two and a half storey front elevation culminates in a projecting half-timbered gable supported on a series of bracket blocks, a detail repeated over the main entrance of the substantial asymmetrically-placed verandah. Below the pebbled stucco of the gable-end, the elevation is clad in painted shingle over the horizontal siding of the basement. Broad, shallow stairs (the full width of the front porch) sweep up to the verandah between massive granite piers. This house represents a sophisticated regional re-interpretation of an English prototype.

The house was repainted in historical colours in 2001 with the assistance of a VHF True Colours grant.

Source

City of Vancouver, VHF Files

More information

http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/010913/ph1c.htm