ARCHITECTURE:
This shingled, 1½-storey, side-gabled Arts & Crafts house has a large, front-gabled, jettied box bay supported on square brackets with pyramidal points. It is above a small gabled front porch to the L and a shallow, half-round, cantilevered bay on the R. Side-facing steps lead to the front porch. There is a deep box bay to the L below a balcony which is accessed by a through-the-cornice gabled wall dormer. The R side of the house has a small cantilevered box bay supported on brackets. The bracketed main gables have narrow, denticulated bargeboards, and half-timbering and roughcast stucco in the upper gables. The string courses are also denticulated.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
1910-20: Capt Herbert William Ruthven Moore (b.London, ENG 1873-1954) married Emma Alice (née Petley, b. WI, USA 1877-1932) in Seattle in 1904. He studied law at Pembroke College, Cambridge ENG. He was a member of one of England’s best rugby teams but here he played golf. He practised law in Calgary, leaving in 1896 to manage a gold mine in Yukon. He came here in 1902 and was called to the BC bar in 1908 serving as city prosecutor, before resigning to join Barnard and Robertson in 1910. Before WWI he was a sports reporter for Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He enlisted in 1916 and served with 231st Overseas Btn, CEF. In 1920 he and Major W.H. Langley established a law firm here, then in 1929 he partnered with Charles E. Wilson as Moore & Wilson, Barristers & Solicitors. Retiring in 1951, he was living in the Union Club when he died.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
1921-75: Lt-Col Harold Edward Ridewood, MD, CMAC (b. Enfield, Mx, ENG 1878-1952) studied at London Hospital medical college and Univ London. In 1903 he was appointed house physician at London Hosp, surgical registrar in 1908. He came here in 1911 and in 1913 helped found American College of Surgeons. He enlisted in 1916, went overseas in charge of 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, and was diagnosed with Neuresthenia caused by overwork in 1918. He married Mary (née Medd, b. Heron Lake, IA, USA 1896-1975) in Sand Diego, CA, USA in 1919, Her parents were residents of Saltspring Is; her father was Dr. W.H.R. Medd, VS who served with Imperial Army Veterinary Corps during WWI. Harold died in London, ENG; Mary remained in the house until her death.