Heritage Register
North Park
1033 Queens Avenue
Built
1911
Heritage-Registered
For: Henry & Mary Ball
Draughtsman: D.T. Rhodes
ARCHITECTURE:
This 1½-storey, Arts & Crafts house has a jerkinheaded
front gable, and three hip-roofed dormers, two on the left and
one on the right. On the right side are a piano window and
a cantilevered box bay. In the front gable is a shallow,
denticulated oriel bay, and a small closet window. A full-width,
recessed verandah below the denticulated string course
has four square posts with stubby brackets and a solid balustrade.
The long staircase has a square, spindled balustrade.
There is a wide, shallow, octagonal bay with leaded lights to
the right of the front doors, and a piano window to the left.
The gables, body of the house, and verandah balustrade are
clad in bevelled siding, the basement below the water table is
shingled. In 2008 the house was raised and suited.
ORIGINAL OWNERS:
1911-27: Henry Burns Ball (1866-1944) and Mary
Elizabeth (née Smith, 1867-1925) came to Victoria from
St. Catharines, ON, in 1889. They lived with Elizabeth’s
widowed mother Alvena Smith in her boarding house in
1893 (1243 Rudlin St, Fernwood). Henry, a barber, left this
house after his wife died in 1925. Harold Foster married their
daughter, Alvena Georganna Ball (b. Victoria 1900), in 1925;
they lived in the house until 1927. Harold was employed at
the St. James Hotel and the Variety Theatre.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
1928-31: William Henry Currie (b. Stirling, SCT 1883-
1969) and Annie Sheddan (née MacMillan, b. Greenock,
SCT 1884-1947) came here in 1909. William married
Gertrude Estella Luscombe (1884-1982) after Annie died. A
BC civil servant for 20 years, he was then a Travel Bureau
Commissioner until 1947.
1933-35: BC government clerk
William W. and Ethel M. Moore.
1936-52: Carpenter
Reginald Taylor (1884-1984) and Minnie Maud (née Webber,
1885-1972) were born in Cornwall, ENG. Reginald
came to BC in 1912, Minnie in 1914; they married in
Vancouver in 1914. They were members of Glad Tidings
Pentecostal Church from 1926 until their deaths.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & IMAGES:
• Map of Victoria Heritage Register Properties
• North Park History
• North Park Heritage Register
• This Old House, Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods,
Volume Three: Rockland, Burnside, Harris Green,
Hillside-Quadra,
North Park & Oaklands
