Burnaby North High School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark745
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Associated Dates
- 1923-1982
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Willingdon Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1923-1982
- Heritage Value
- Burnaby North and Burnaby South were the first high schools built in the City. Before the high school opened, Burnaby students had to travel to Vancouver if they wished to pursue education beyond an elementary level. In 1921, arrangements were made to use the basement of the Presbyterian Church for instruction of local students. By 1922 the Burnaby North High School opened at its first permanent location (4375 Pandora Street - which is now Rosser Elementary). In 1945, the Willingdon Avenue site was built and was used until a new building was constructed in 1961 on Hammarskjold Drive. From 1962, the school was used as Burnaby Heights Junior High school, but it closed in 1982 and the junior high students went to the new Burnaby North on Hammarskjold.
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Capitol Hill Area
- Street Address
- 250 Willingdon Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Cariboo Hill Secondary School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark837
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- 16th Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1961
- Heritage Value
- By 1961, three new elementary schools had been built in the northeast section of Burnaby - Armstrong, Seaforth, and Lyndhurst. With growing enrolment at each, too many students were required to travel a farther distance to attend Edmonds Junior High School. As a result, the Cariboo Hill Secondary School was built in 1961 and opened with 410 students. Its peak enrolment was during the 1974 school year when over 1100 students attended. Additions to the school were made in 1969, 1971 and 1974.
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
- Street Address
- 8580 16th Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Dr. William & Ruth Baldwin House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark534
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- The Dr. William & Ruth Baldwin House is a two-storey modern post-and-beam structure, located on the southern shore of Deer Lake in Burnaby's Deer Lake Park. The site is steeply sloped, and the main entrance of the house is at the top of the slope facing onto Deer Lake Drive.
- Associated Dates
- 1965
- Formal Recognition
- Community Heritage Register
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Deer Lake Drive
- Associated Dates
- 1965
- Formal Recognition
- Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Council Resolution
- Enactment Date
- 26/05/2003
- Description
- The Dr. William & Ruth Baldwin House is a two-storey modern post-and-beam structure, located on the southern shore of Deer Lake in Burnaby's Deer Lake Park. The site is steeply sloped, and the main entrance of the house is at the top of the slope facing onto Deer Lake Drive.
- Heritage Value
- The Baldwin House is valued as a prime example of Burnaby’s post-Second World War modern heritage and progressive architectural style, as well as for its personal connections to internationally-acclaimed architect, Arthur Erickson. Inspired by the modern domestic idiom established earlier in the twentieth century by Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, Erickson conceived his architecture as responding directly to the site. A cohesive expression of simple orthogonal lines and ultimate transparency, this structure reduces the idea of post-and-beam West Coast modernism to its most refined elements. A fine example of the evolving talent of Erickson’s earlier work, this house is a landmark modern house in Burnaby and is unique in terms of siting and context. Having just won the 1963 competition for the new Simon Fraser University in Burnaby with his partner, Geoff Massey, and having built fewer than half a dozen homes previously, Erickson’s reputation was growing and his skill as a designer of modern buildings was in great demand. The same year that Erickson/Massey Architects designed SFU, Dr. William Baldwin and his wife, Ruth, personal friends of Erickson, commissioned him to design this house. Erickson was already familiar with the site; as a child he had spent time at this spot when his family visited friends who lived on Deer Lake. Both the Baldwin House and the university were completed in 1965. SFU became internationally famous; the Baldwin House was also considered an architectural success and was recognized in publications of the time. Only a single storey of this two-storey house is visible from the road, as it is built into the hillside in response to its steep site and proximity to Deer Lake. Like many other Erickson designs, this structure was conceived as a pavilion. Constructed of glass and wood, its transparency facilitates visual access to the lake’s edge, acting as an invitation, rather than a barrier, to the landscape. The house blends into the natural surroundings and the site includes other man-made landscape features such as a reflecting pool. As a reaction to the often grey quality of light in the region, Erickson exploits flat planes of water as a source of borrowed light. The refined and purposeful design, transparency, openness of plan and adjacency to the lake combine to give the house a floating appearance at the water's edge. The concept of a floating house set within an accompanying garden was inspired, in part, by the palaces and house boats of Dal Lake in Kashmir and the famed nearby Mughal Gardens. Although Erickson never visited Dal Lake, he travelled extensively throughout India, and specifically mentions the Kashmir reference in relation to this house. There is a rich complexity of other allusions worked into the fabric of the house, unified by a feeling for the conjunction of light, water and land at this special location. Widely renowned as Canada’s most brilliant modern architect, Erickson’s reputation is important to the development and growth of modern architecture in Canada and North America.
- Defining Elements
- The elements of the Baldwin House that define its character are those materials and details which respond to the location of the building and determine the relation between landscape and building, combining to create a single cohesive site. These include its: - close proximity to water - orthogonal plan and massing, with flat tar-and-gravel roof - stepped down massing orienting the house towards the water - post-and-beam construction, with the width of the beams matched to the width of the posts - wood and glass used as primary building materials - transparency and light achieved by the abundant use of glass - large undivided sheets of single glazing - butt glazed glass corners - abundant and generous balconies, which blur the transition from interior to exterior - horizontal flush cedar siding - use of salvaged brick for chimneys - use of chains as downspouts - built-in rooftop barbeque - built in furniture and fittings dating to the time of construction, such as original hardware, benches, bathroom vanities and kitchen cabinets - landscaped site including reflecting pool, plantings and a dock protruding into the lake
- Locality
- Deer Lake Park
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Function
- Primary Current--Single Dwelling
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Burnaby
- Cadastral Identifier
- P.I.D. No. 011-946-032 and P.I.D. No. 011-946-067
- Boundaries
- The Baldwin House is comprised of two municipally-owned lots located at 6543 and 6545 Deer Lake Drive, Burnaby.
- Area
- 6,070.20
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Landscape Feature
- Ownership
- Public (local)
- Other Collection
- Canadian Architectural Archives, University of Calgary, Collection: Original Plans No. ERI 4A/76.13
- Documentation
- Heritage Site Files: PC77000 20. City of Burnaby Planning and Building Department, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C., V5G 1M2
- Street Address
- 6543 Deer Lake Drive
Images
The how and why wonder book of North America
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6380
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV014.17.56
- Call Number
- 970 ROB
- Author
- Robbin, Irving
- Contributor
- Sweet, Darrell
- Wolf, Donald D.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Wonder Books
- Publication Date
- c1962
- Series
- How and why wonder books
- Physical Description
- 48 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- North America--Description and travel
- Central America--Description and travel
- West Indies--Description and travel
- Juvenile literature
- Notes
- "Edited under the supervision of Dr. Paul E. Blackwood, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. Text and illustrations approved by Oakes A. White. Brooklyn Children's Museum, Boorklyn, New York." -- t.p.
- "Illustrated by Darrell Sweet"
- "Editorial production, Donald D. Wolf"
The Automobile Association members handbook 1963
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6419
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV014.17.67
- Call Number
- 914.2 AUT
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- The Automobile Association
- Publication Date
- c1963
- Series
- Members handbook series
- Physical Description
- 256 p. : col. maps ; 21 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Great Britain--Road maps
- Automobile driving
- Great Britain--Description and travel--Guidebooks
- Directories
Interpreting our heritage
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary985
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Tilden, Freeman, 1883-1980
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Publication Date
- c1967
- Call Number
- 973.07 TIL
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0807840165
- Call Number
- 973.07 TIL
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Author
- Tilden, Freeman, 1883-1980
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, [N.C.]
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date
- c1967
- Physical Description
- xviii, 120 p. illus. 21 cm.
- Inscription
- "John Thomson / 7231 E. Broadway / Burnaby B.C./ 298-8861" signed and printed in block letters in blue ink on subtitle page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- United States. National Park Service
- United States--History--Study and teaching
- United States--Description and travel
- Notes
- Includes index.
The Journal of Arthur Thomas Bushby, 1858-1859
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5849
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 917.11 BUS
- Contributor
- Blakey Smith, Dorothy
- Place of Publication
- [S.l.]
- Publisher
- [s.n.]
- Publication Date
- 1963
- Printer
- A. Sutton
- Library Subject (LOC)
- British Columbia--Description and travel
- Notes
- "Reprinted from the British Columbia historical quarterly, January-October, 1957-1958." from cover title
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contributor:
- Edited by Dorothy Blakey Smith
The western interior of Canada : a record of geographical discovery, 1612-1917
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1260
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Warkentin, John, 1928-
- Publication Date
- c1964
- Call Number
- 917.123 WAR
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 917.123 WAR
- Author
- Warkentin, John, 1928-
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Publication Date
- c1964
- Physical Description
- ix, 304 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Canada--Description and travel
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-299) and index.