Campbell House
2203 30th Avenue, Vernon, Colombie-Britannique, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
1993/05/05
Autre nom(s)
Campbell House
Morden/Dickson/Campbell House
Morden House
Liens et documents
s/o
Date(s) de construction
1898/01/01
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2010/05/20
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
The Campbell House is a two-and-one-half-storey Queen Anne Revival house located on the East Hill at the top of 30th Avenue in Vernon. It is dominated by a corner tower with a conical turret.
Valeur patrimoniale
Built in 1898, the Campbell House is valued as a landmark residence overlooking downtown Vernon from the top of 'Suicide Hill' on 30th Avenue. It was built for A.E. Morden, a rancher and prospector who owned the Morning Glory Mine in Okanagan Landing, but is best known for its association with the Campbell family, operators of a furniture store and funeral business in Vernon for many years. The form is a variety of Queen Anne Revival. Based loosely on the medieval revival styles of Richard Norman Shaw, this American variant is a rambling wood-frame structure, likely designed from an American pattern book. The style was popular in the Okanagan from the early 1890s to around 1910. This house is one of four built on the East Hill above Pleasant Valley Road prior to 1900.
The Campbell House is notable for its fine design detail. It is cross-gabled with a tall, slender tower rising for two stories above the first floor porch. A conical turret, with a decorative finial above, further emphasizes the height. Queen Anne Revival architecture calls for the use of a variety of materials to add texture to the surface of the structure. Here there are rows of fish-scale shingles alternating with drop siding, bay windows, and deeply boxed eaves and decorated gable ends and trusses, extensive verandahs with turned porch rails and a balustrade, and decorative brackets.
Source: City of Vernon Planning Department
Éléments caractéristiques
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Campbell House include its:
- two-and-one-half-storey massing, with cross-gabled roof
- corner tower with turret
- verandahs with turned rails
- original double-hung windows
- drop siding and fish-scale shingle cladding
- boxed eaves with decorated gable ends and trusses
- decorative brackets
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Colombie-Britannique
Autorité de reconnaissance
Administrations locales (C.-B.)
Loi habilitante
Local Government Act, art.967
Type de reconnaissance
Désignation patrimoniale
Date de reconnaissance
1993/05/05
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
s/o
Thème - catégorie et type
- Un territoire à peupler
- Les établissements
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Résidence
- Édifice à logements multiples
Historique
- Résidence
- Logement unifamilial
Architecte / Concepteur
s/o
Constructeur
s/o
Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
City of Vernon Planning Department
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Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
EbQt-26
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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