ARCHITECTURE:
This unusual example of Edwardian Vernacular Arts & Crafts is a 1½-storey house with a steeply-pitched, front-gabled roof and gabled dormers on both sides over angled bays. There is a leaded glass piano window on the left side. The centrally located front stairway leads to an inset right corner porch, now enclosed. Three short, stubby Tuscan columns with entasis set on cut granite piers support the low and wide Chalet-style gabled porch roof. All the gables have bracketed overhanging eaves and denticulated bargeboards. The gables are clad in roughcast stucco and half-timbering, the main floor in double-bevelled siding, and the basement is shingled. A shallow gabled extension on the rear echoes the front porch. The front garden wall matches the stonework of the piers.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
1913-50, 1954-55: Norman “Howard” Caufield (b. Algoma, ON 1886-1950) and Lottie Evelene (née Knechtel, b. Brussels, ON 1884-1962). Members of Plymouth Brethren, they married in Moose Jaw, SK in 1907, coming here in 1912. He worked in real estate then was involved in mining for 12 years. After his death, Lottie left the house for a few years.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
Tenant: 1950-53: Nora Robinson, widow of J.A. Robinson.