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Woodward House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark500
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- The Woodward House is a two-storey plus basement, wood-framed house with British Arts and Crafts influences. It is set in a wooded landscape on a lakefront property, on Sperling Avenue within the Deer Lake Park Heritage Precinct of Burnaby, with expansive views of the lake.
- Associated Dates
- 1912
- Formal Recognition
- Community Heritage Register
- Other Names
- Maud & Harriet Woodward Residence
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Maud & Harriet Woodward Residence
- Geographic Access
- Sperling Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1912
- Formal Recognition
- Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Council Resolution
- Enactment Date
- 26/05/2003
- Description
- The Woodward House is a two-storey plus basement, wood-framed house with British Arts and Crafts influences. It is set in a wooded landscape on a lakefront property, on Sperling Avenue within the Deer Lake Park Heritage Precinct of Burnaby, with expansive views of the lake.
- Heritage Value
- Maud Sarah Woodward (1865-1958), a pioneer nurse originally from England, and her sister Harriet Julia Woodward (1879-1969), one of Burnaby’s first teachers, had this large house built in 1912 to replace the smaller cottage they owned nearby at 5141 Sperling Avenue. Farmer, builder and longtime Deer Lake resident, Bernard R. Hill (1858-1939), was hired as the contractor. The Woodward House played an important role in the Deer Lake community. The Woodward sisters were tireless community organizers and volunteers. This house served a number of functions, and in addition to being the sisters’ home was the local post office until 1949 and also a private kindergarten/school until 1935. Originally designed in the British Arts and Crafts style with a simple rustic exterior of cedar shingles, it is an excellent example of the type of residence constructed by middle-class citizens in the Deer Lake neighbourhood. The B.C. Electric Railway's Burnaby Lake Interurban line, which opened June 12, 1911, fostered the development of Deer Lake as well as other Edwardian era neighbourhoods in Burnaby.
- Defining Elements
- Key elements that define the heritage character of the Woodward House include its: - lakefront location, within the Deer Lake Park Heritage Precinct - residential form, scale and massing as exhibited by its two-storey height, full basement, square floor plan and side-gabled roof - internal red-brick chimneys - British Arts and Crafts features such as cedar shingle siding, extant under later plywood - associated landscape features such as mature coniferous trees
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Builder
- Bernard R. Hill
- Function
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Primary Current--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Deer Lake
- Cadastral Identifier
- P.I.D.002-507-064
- Boundaries
- The Woodward House is comprised of a single residential lot located at 5195 Sperling Avenue, Burnaby.
- Area
- 1788.5
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Public (local)
- Documentation
- City of Burnaby Planning and Building Department, Heritage Site Files
- Street Address
- 5195 Sperling Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Painted rock at base of tree
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription14743
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 21 May 2020
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum COVID-19 collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpg) : col. ; 72 dpi.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a rock painted to look like a Canadian flag placed at the base of a tree in the neighbourhood of Highgate Village.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum COVID-19 collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpg) : col. ; 72 dpi.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a rock painted to look like a Canadian flag placed at the base of a tree in the neighbourhood of Highgate Village.
- History
- The photographer, Lorna Court took this photograph in May of 2020 while out walking near Highgate Village. Rock painting became a popular craft for children and adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Painted rocks or "kindness stones" were placed in outdoor public spaces and were painted with cheerful and insightful messages and colourful designs.
- Subjects
- Pandemics - COVID-19
- Accession Code
- BV020.30.3
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 21 May 2020
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Court, Lorna
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph