Barnet Lumber Company House
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Texaco Drive
- Associated Dates
- 1925
- Description
- Residential building.
- Heritage Value
- This house is one of two surviving houses built as a “Model Home” for the manager of the Barnet Lumber Company, which was the successor to the North Pacific Lumber Company. It was used as a combined home and office. It was constructed with framing lumber and millwork sawn at the mill. Typical of the Craftsman style, the house has a front gabled roof with triangular eave brackets. It has been altered with the addition of asbestos shingles over the original siding, but retains its form, scale and massing.
This house was designed by the firm of Townley & Matheson. The partnership of Fred Laughton Townley (1887-1966) and Robert Michael Matheson began in 1919, and the firm left a rich legacy of sophisticated work, including schools, commercial structures, many fine residences and the landmark Vancouver City Hall.
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Architect
- Townley & Matheson
- Area
- 2225.77
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Public (local)
- Names
- Townley & Matheson
- Barnet Lumber Company
- Subjects
- Buildings - Heritage
- Buildings - Residential
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Street Address
- 8007 Texaco Drive
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Barnet Lumber Company House
Barnet Lumber mill
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [192-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Barnet Lumber Company mill in operation. C.P.R. railroad tracks are visible in the foreground and trees on the north shore of Burrard Inlet are visible in the distance. Plumes of smoke are rising from the mill chimneys.
Eleanor and Louise Irwin with Uncle Fred in snow
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1928] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Eleanor Irwin (Nelson) and Louise Irwin with their uncle, Fred Taylor. The group are standing in the snow in the yard of the Irwin family home at the Barnet Lumber Mill.Eleanor is holding a doll and Fred Taylor is holding Louise.
Eleanor and Louise with Aunt Mary Beale
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1929] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Eleanor Irwin (Nelson) and Louise Irwin on a tricycle with their Aunt Mary Beale standing behind. Eleanor is peddling while Louise is standing behind and holding onto her her sister's waist. The group is in the yard of the Irwin family home on the site of the Barnet Lumber Mill. The m…
Eleanor Irwin on sled
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1928] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Eleanor Irwin (Nelson) standing on a wooden sled in the snow. A tall coniferous tree is behind her.
Eleanor, Louise, H.S. Irwin and grandmother Taylor at Barnet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1929] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Eleanor Irwin Nelson (left), Louise Irwin (in front), Harvey Stanley Irwin and his mother in law, Elizabeth (Shephard) Taylor in the garden of the manager's residence at the Barnet mill.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Series
- Irwin family photographs series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Eleanor Irwin Nelson (left), Louise Irwin (in front), Harvey Stanley Irwin and his mother in law, Elizabeth (Shephard) Taylor in the garden of the manager's residence at the Barnet mill.
- Names
- Barnet Mill
- Barnet Lumber Company
- Nelson, Eleanor Irwin
- Irwin, Louise
- Irwin, Henry Stanley
- Taylor, Elizabeth Shephard
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.65
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1929] (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- See page 47 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village" with caption "...Left to Right: Eleanor Irwin, Louise Irwin, Mr. Irwin and Grandmother Irwin, 1929"
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Elsie May Irwin with daughter Louise and the Beales
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1928] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Elsie May (Taylor) Irwin (left), the Beales and young Louise Irwin. The group are gathered on the grounds of the Irwin family home at the Barnet Lumber Mill.Young Louise Irwin is holding on to a chair.
Grandma Irwin with Eleanor and Louise Irwin
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1929] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Grandma Irwin with her granddaughters Eleanor and Louise Irwin. Eleanor is riding a tricycle and Louise Irwin is tanding on a wooden walkway pointing up to the sky. The group outside of the yard of the Irwin family home on the site of the Barnet Lumber Mill.
Grandma Taylor on swing with Louise and Eleanor
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1928] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of grandmother, Elizabeth Taylor seated on a swing and holding baby Louise Irwin while young Eleanor Irwin is standing behind and pushing. The swing is hanging from a tree in a yard.
Japanese sailing ship in Burrard Inlet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1925] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of two children standing at a gate of a picket fence and looking towards buildings and a four masted Japanese sailing ship docked next to the Barnet Mill in Burrard Inlet. Residences and buildings from Barnet are visible in the distance.
Japanese sailing ship in Burrard Inlet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1925] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph detail of two children standing at a gate of a picket fence and looking towards buildings and a four masted Japanese sailing ship docked next to the Barnet Mill in Burrard Inlet. Residences and buildings from Barnet are visible in the distance.
Louise Irwin running at Barnet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1929] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of young Louise Irwin running down a wooden sidewalk at the Barnet mill. The home of the Barnet Lumber Company manager, Mr. Reid and his wife is visible in the distance. An unidentified person is riding bicycle behind Louise.
Mr. H.S. Irwin in automobile
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1928] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Henry Stanley Irwin at the driver's seat of his Dodge automobile. The automobile is parked alongside a picket fence, outside of the manager's residence where Henry and his family resided at the Barnet Lumber Mill.A row of trees runs alongside the fence with cherry trees in bloom.