Victoria's oldest houses
#1
Posted 20 October 2006 - 11:10 PM
Index of Properties in Chronological Order
c.1852 - 638 Elliot St Sq (Helmcken House)
1858 - 835 Humboldt St (St. Ann's Chapel)
1861 - 140 Government St
- 1462 Rockland Av (1910)
- 601 Trutch St
1861-62 - 2616 Pleasant St
1862 - 1156 Fort St
c.1863 - 207 Government St
1863 - 1421 Blanshard St
(Times Colonist)
1865 - 923 Burdett Av (Mt. St. Angela)
- 1490 Fairfield Rd
- 916 Pandora Av
c.1870-71 - 1519 Amelia St
1871 - 1021 Gillespie Pl
- 835 Humboldt St
1872 - 1401 Rockland (outbuildings)
- Ross Bay Cemetery
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#2
Posted 21 October 2006 - 02:44 PM
#3
Posted 21 October 2006 - 02:53 PM
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#4
Posted 26 October 2006 - 08:39 PM
#5
Posted 27 October 2006 - 01:06 PM
http://vibrantvictoria.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=318
It's not intended to be about the oddest houses but there are a lot of odd houses in there.
#6
Posted 28 October 2006 - 07:06 PM
Now I need to remember to take the digital camera with me when I'm out and about--I'd like to house-hunt, too, in the non-purchasing kind of way.
#7
Posted 03 June 2008 - 10:31 AM
I read somewhere that this was the oldest house in Victoria. Does anyone know if it has any future? Will it be declared "heritage" or demolished? It's in a most unfortunate location. I had trouble getting this shot because there was a fight among some deranged people going on right outside.
#8
Posted 03 June 2008 - 10:39 AM
#9
Posted 03 June 2008 - 10:41 AM
Either way I think that this building has a future. If someone put some condos in some of the empty lots in this area so as to outnumber the crack smokers in the next lot it would all be fixed. Also Wildfire just around the corner does very well depite the location as does McDonald's so I guess it would be all about the type of commercial tenant they get.
#10
Posted 03 June 2008 - 11:04 AM
I found the source:
http://www.vibrantvi...?searchid=20284
Whenever that picture is posted I feel compelled to comment about Cranberry's Cafe. That house dates from 1865 and in fact, there are only nine houses that are older in all of Victoria.
I should have done a search first.
The house is from 1865 and still standing and in use so it is worthy of protection otherwise we lose our history. (That's me on my conservation soap box.)
#11
Posted 03 June 2008 - 11:13 AM
http://www.loopnet.c...0477&STID=naibc
It would be nice to have a café in there again, especially if it served the evening audiences at the Conservatory across the street.
#12
Posted 03 June 2008 - 11:25 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#13
Posted 03 June 2008 - 11:41 AM
It certainly isn't the oldest building which I believe is the Customs House building.
Methinks the oldest brick building is that little one on Government beneath the fake tudor cladding (which came much later). Yes?
Helmcken House was moved, was it not? It's the original house but it's not on its original site, if I remember correctly.
As for this Cranberry Cafe house, I don't understand why we aren't using buildings like this one (and the one that was just demolished across the street) as inspiration for new construction. The storefront is just right. Victorians tend to want to re-invent the wheel all the time.
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Posted 03 June 2008 - 11:57 AM
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#16
Posted 03 June 2008 - 02:55 PM
Thanks for the facts, folks.
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Posted 03 June 2008 - 02:57 PM
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Posted 03 June 2008 - 02:59 PM
#19
Posted 03 June 2008 - 03:10 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#20
Posted 03 June 2008 - 03:17 PM
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