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Description: The Mortimer-Lamb House is a one and one half-storey, Arts and Crafts-style residence with a steeply pitched, side-gabled roof. The original cottage form has been enlarged with a later addition on the west side of the house. Located next to the Burnaby Lake Regional Park Wildlife Rescue Care Centre…

Associated Dates: c.1922

Formal Recognition: Community Heritage Register

Other Names: Harold & Katherine Mortimer-Lamb Residence

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Other Names: Harold & Katherine Mortimer-Lamb Residence

Geographic Access: Glencarin Drive

Associated Dates: c.1922

Formal Recognition: Community Heritage Register

Enactment Type: Council Resolution

Enactment Date: 26/05/2003

Description: The Mortimer-Lamb House is a one and one half-storey, Arts and Crafts-style residence with a steeply pitched, side-gabled roof. The original cottage form has been enlarged with a later addition on the west side of the house. Located next to the Burnaby Lake Regional Park Wildlife Rescue Care Centre, the house has picturesque views of Burnaby Lake.

Heritage Value: Built circa 1922, the Mortimer-Lamb House is valued for its association with first owners, Harold Mortimer-Lamb (1872-1970), and his wife, Katherine Mary Mortimer-Lamb (1873-1939). Born in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, Harold Mortimer-Lamb immigrated to Canada in 1889. Seven years later in Vancouver, he married Katherine Mary Lindsay, a native of Winnipeg. Mortimer-Lamb was a key figure in the B.C. mining industry, serving as Secretary of the Mining Association of B.C. between 1900 and 1945, and also as the Secretary of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. In addition to his professional life, Mortimer-Lamb was a pioneer art photographer and was among Canada's leading art critics, and this house served as a central gathering place for renowned Canadian artists of the day. Mortimer-Lamb’s daughter, Molly Lamb Bobak (born 1922), became a renowned watercolourist, and was the only woman ever hired as an official Canadian war artist. The Mortimer-Lamb House is a significant example of the work of noted architect, Samuel Maclure (1860-1929) and his partner, Ross Lort (1889-1969). Maclure, who was a close friend of the Mortimer-Lamb family, was British Columbia's leading residential architect, and was renowned for his high quality designs for prominent citizens in both Vancouver and Victoria. Maclure was a leading exponent of the Art and Crafts design movement in B.C., and established a sophisticated local variation of residential architecture. The Mortimer-Lamb House was designed at the time when Maclure was in partnership with Ross Lort. In 1907, Lort began working for Maclure's firm as a draftsman, and by 1920 was in charge of Maclure's Vancouver office. Lort's architectural career spanned some sixty-years, and he designed some of the province's most familiar houses, apartments, institutions and places of worship. The Mortimer-Lamb House is also a significant local example of the Arts and Crafts style, and incorporates elements such as board-and-batten siding on the ground floor, shingled gables and leaded casement windows. It is a testament to the domestic architecture built outside of established suburbs during the post-First World War era, typically modest in scale and representative of middle-class residential ideals.

Defining Elements: Key elements that define the heritage character of the Mortimer-Lamb House include its: - treed setting with views of Burnaby Lake - residential form, scale and massing as expressed by its one and one-half storey height, rectangular plan and steeply pitched side-gabled roof - wood-frame construction - Arts and Crafts elements such as board-and-batten siding on the ground floor, cedar shingles in the gables and open soffits - original straight-leaded casement windows in single and multiple-assembly - internal red-brick chimney with corbelled cap

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Organization: Mining Association of B.C.; G.F. and J. Galt Limited

Architect: Samuel Maclure; Ross Lort

Function: Primary Historic--Single Dwelling; Primary Current--Single Dwelling

Community: Burnaby Lake

Cadastral Identifier: P.I.D.002-977-788

Boundaries: The Mortimer-Lamb House is comprised of a single residential lot located at 5180 Glencairn Drive, Burnaby.

Area: 5652.78

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Documentation: City of Burnaby Planning and Building Department, Heritage Site Files

Street Address: 5180 Glencarin Drive

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of the Harold & Katherine Mortimer-Lamb Residence, 2013.. Southeast elevation.. thumbnail

Johnson & Mary Skinner Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1912

Other Names: Timms House

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Other Names: Timms House

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Associated Dates: c.1912

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: This house was originally built by Fraser Arm pioneer and postmaster Johnson Alfred Skinner (1864-1941) and his wife, Mary Emma Skinner (née Bailey, 1862-1929). Johnson, who was from Sussex, worked as a horticulturalist. This is an unusual variation on the Craftsman style, with a side gabled roof and a half-width front verandah. Local mason John Pickard completed the distinctive battered cobblestone masonry, including the foundation, chimney, verandah columns and the porte-cochère. The house was later occupied and remodeled by the Timms family.

Locality: Fraser Arm

Historic Neighbourhood: Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Big Bend Area

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 5634 Marine Drive

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of the Johnson & Mary Skinner Residence, 2013.. Oblique view.. thumbnail

Historic view of the Johnson & Mary Skinner Residence, c.1925. (Photograph of masonry work done by John Pickard. Historic Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby Archives 204-657. thumbnail

Exterior view of the Johnson & Mary Skinner Residence, 2013. (Front elevation. Exterior Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. thumbnail

Exterior view of the Johnson & Mary Skinner Residence, 2013. (Northeast view. Exterior Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. thumbnail

Agnes & Elizabeth Michie Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1935

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Yale Street

Associated Dates: c.1935

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: This interwar bungalow is beautifully preserved and retains many original features. Symmetrical in design, with two steeply-pitched front gables that flank a central arched gable over the front entrance, it also retains its narrow arched windows and projecting purlins in the front gables. Narrow sidelights flank the front door. The matching front elevation windows are typical of the period, with double-hung sash flanking a plate glass “picture window” with a curved transom; the upper panes are cross-leaded. This house was built by Agnes Michie and Elizabeth D. Michie.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 3894 Yale Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of Agnes & Elizabeth Michie Residence, 2013.. North elevation.. thumbnail

Exterior view of the Agnes & Elizabeth Michie Residence, 2013. (East elevation. Exterior Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. thumbnail

Greenwood Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1911

Other Names: Albert & Emma Greenwood Residence

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Other Names: Albert & Emma Greenwood Residence

Geographic Access: Victory Street

Associated Dates: c.1911

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: Typical of the Arts and Crafts style, this house has a front gabled roof with triangular eave brackets and a front verandah with twinned square columns on tapered piers. It is notable for its stained glass windows and early ‘ripple’ float glass. Asbestos shingles were at one point added over the original siding, but are being removed by the owner, exposing the cedar shingles. The house is believed to have been built and occupied by Albert and Emma Greenwood.

Locality: Alta Vista

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 4569 Victory Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of the Albert & Emma Greenwood Residence, 2013.. South elevation.. thumbnail

Exterior view of the Albert & Emma Greenwood Residence, 2013. (Oblique view from the northwest. Exterior Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. thumbnail

Annie Barrett-Lennard Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1935

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Parker Street

Associated Dates: c.1935

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: Built for Annie Barrett-Lennard, this British Arts and Crafts residence has retained many of its original features, such as its stucco and half-timbering exterior with a cat’s slide roof over the front entrance. The steeply-pitched gables, asymmetrical half-massing, leaded windows and pegged joinery are all references to traditional British antecedents.

Locality: Capitol Hill

Historic Neighbourhood: Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Parkcrest-Aubrey Area

Area: 1227.44

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 5450 Parker Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Captain William Eyres Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1910

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Canada Way

Associated Dates: c.1910

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: This home was built by Captain William J. Eyres. In 1912, it was reported in The British Columbian: “Captain Eyres of Seattle is remodelling the front of his house on Douglas Road and otherwise improving it.” The house was later sold to William A. Mawhinney, who subsequently built houses at 6011 Buckingham Avenue and 7616 Burris Avenue. This spacious, high-quality Craftsman bungalow remains in excellent condition. It features a cross-gabled roof with multiple half-timbered front gables with large exposed purlins, in contrast to the shingle cladding on the rest of the house. At the front corner is a glazed sun-room. The entrance porch features tripled square columns. The property still has a beautiful garden, but once included large vegetable gardens, an orchard, and a large chicken house.

Locality: Burnaby Lake

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

Area: 1709.65

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 6079 Canada Way

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of the Captain William Eyres Residence, 2015.. View from the east.. thumbnail

Colonial Finance Company House

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1912

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Cambridge Street

Associated Dates: c.1912

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: 3890 Cambridge Street and 3896 Cambridge Street are nearly identical twins. These modestly-sized pattern book residences each feature a side gabled roof with a central dormer and a central entrance, as well as interesting Craftsman-style detailing such as the bracketed verandah columns, triangular eave brackets and exposed rafter tails. Though the original exterior siding has been covered by a later stucco cladding, the house maintains its original double-hung windows with elaborate multi-paned upper sashes. Built as a revenue property, it was owned by the Colonial Finance Company in 1915.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 3890 Cambridge Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Colonial Finance Company House

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1912

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Cambridge Street

Associated Dates: c.1912

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: 3890 Cambridge Street and 3896 Cambridge Street are nearly identical twins. These modestly-sized pattern book residences each feature a side gabled roof with a central dormer and a central entrance, and an open front verandah. Both houses have later coverings over their original siding; 3890 Cambridge was stuccoed, and this house received more recent vinyl siding, indicating the periodic pressure on homeowners to “upgrade” through the use of new, applied products. Built as a revenue property by the Colonial Finance Company, this house was owned by David Caldwell, the manager of the Caldwell & Carson real estate company in 1915.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Street Address: 3896 Cambridge Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Mortimer-Lamb House

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Johnson & Mary Skinner Residence

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Agnes & Elizabeth Michie Residence

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Greenwood Residence

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Annie Barrett-Lennard Residence

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Captain William Eyres Residence

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Colonial Finance Company House

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Colonial Finance Company House

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