North East Corner
The Roedde House remained a family home for thirty-two years. It then became a rooming house, a house where separate rooms were rented to different tenants, for almost the next fifty years. It was bought by the city of Vancouver in 1966 when the city was assembling property in this area to develop a park site. In 1990, the Roedde House Museum opened in what is now known as Barclay Heritage Square, a public park that has nine heritage houses. In the course of the years, the west end has seen many changes as has the house and the block.
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The house is very picturesque, and is of the North American Queen Anne revival style. The house design signifies a look back into the past, a very idealized and romantic past. While the Roedde House's design is from the past, it never loses any luster as it ages. The house borrows from a whole bunch of different styles, as was common amongst 19th century architecture. There is a dash of Flemish, a touch of French, and a hint of Italian design. There are even some parts of the house that derive from the middle east, and from Asia.
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