ARCHITECTURE:
This British Arts & Crafts Tudor Revival house is Georgian Revival in its symmetry. Its main roof is flared and steeply hipped with a tiny, flared, hipped vent on the front. The front façade has two large, two-storey, hip-roofed, box bays on either side of a large, elaborate, angled balcony over a deeply-recessed, centrally-located entry porch. The balcony balustrade repeats the pattern of the half-timbered belt which surrounds the house. The angled front porch is supported on octagonal posts with wide, shallow, curved brackets and solid shingled balustrades. The stair balustrades are also shingled. The two-storey angled bay within the porch has windows with leaded art glass on both floors. The rear or garden façade also has two full-height, hip-roofed bays, but its faceted central balcony has been filled in. The shingled lower floor is separated by a belt course from the upper, which is half-timbered with smooth stucco. The one-storey projection on the right side is the only asymmetrical part of the design. The windows are a mixture of leaded art glass and leaded multi-lights-over-one. The property retains its granite wall with large gate posts, wrought iron gates and railings. There are three tall, ribbed brick chimneys with heavy square brick caps; the one on the left is a through-the-cornice wall chimney. The house cost $13,600.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
1912-20: Investment banker James Telford Reid (b. Strathroy, ON 1869-1953) and Frances (née Chambers, b. Walkerton, ON 1866-1947) came to BC in 1907. He had offices at Bastion and Langley Sts.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
1921-30: Clarence Hoard, CE (b. Kentucky, USA 1878-1969) and Caroline Morrison (née Kinsley, b. Morristown, IN, USA 1884-1980) came to Vancouver Island in 1903 and Victoria in 1915. He built highways and railroads, was president and managing director of Bainbridge Lumber Co, and Vice-President of Victoria (BC) Shipowners Ltd.
1933-35: Hon. Dr. James Horace King, PC, KGStJ, MP, Senator (b Chipman, NB 1873-1955) married Nellie Mae (née Sadler, b. NB, 1876-1949) in Victoria, NB in 1907. He earned his MD from McGill in 1895 and moved to Kootenays, BC in 1898. He helped to found American College of Surgeons in 1910. He served in BC politics from 1903, federal from 1922. In 1928 he became Canada’s first Min. of Pensions and National Health. From 1942 until his death he was a leader in the Canadian Senate.
1936-38: Hon. Gordon McGregor Glaholm Sloan (b. Nanaimo, BC 1898-1959) married Nancy Porter (née Nicol, b. Rosehearty, SCT 1890-1973) in ENG in 1918 while serving in RAF. He joined the CEF in 1916, transferred to the Royal Corps then RAF as Flight Instructor. After the war they returned to BC where he studied law and was called to the bar in 1921. He practised in Vancouver until 1933 then was elected MLA for Vancouver Centre. Appointed AG, he was BC’s youngest at 35. He was appointed judge in 1937 to BC Court of Appeal and in 1944, Chief Justice of that court. Nancy was made a life member of Vancouver Women’s Liberal Association in 1936 for her political work.
1939-45: Hon. Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald, DDS, (b. Nipissing, ON 1872-1945), BC Min of Agriculture from 1933-45, married Celia (née Loughrin, b. Eganville, ON 1875-1958) in Rochester, NY in 1901. He moved in 1890 to Grand Forks, then Vernon, BC, where he practised dentistry. He was North Okanagan MLA in 1916-28 and 1933 until his death.
1947-48: BCER VP William Crossley Mainwaring, OBE (b. Nanaimo, VI 1894-1967) married Gladys Margaret (née Latta, b. Birmingham, ENG 1898-1979) in Vancouver in 1920. He became Pres. of Western Devt & Power Corp in 1957.
1949-60: Ernest William Arnott (b. North Bend, BC 1893-1979) married Geraldine Bonnycastle (née Wallace, b. Calgary 1892-1976) in 1920. He joined the transportation department of BC Electric as a stenographer at 17 becoming department manager in 1935. He was VP of VI operations from 1948-58. He was a member of Vancouver Board of Trade, American Transit Assoc and president of Victoria CofC and Union Club of Victoria.