143 MCGREGOR AVENUE, SAULT STE. MARIE ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION This property is located on Lot 38 and Southerly 1.5 of Lot No. 37 in the Upton Subdivision, Registered Plan No. 7134, Instrument T-230348. The lot size is 122 feet by 51.5 feet and the building's dimensions are 44.25 feet by 18 feet 9 inches. This is a simple, rectangular, two storey residence of local clay brick, sitting on a sandstone basement. A circular two storey tower attached to and forms part of the south east corner of the house. The tower is capped with a conical cedar shingle roof extending up to a point and capped with a pinnacle. The main body of the house is roofed with a pitched asphalt shingled roof with gable ends to the east and south, hipped to the west and sloped to the north. A single storey kitchen is to the rear (west of the house). This section has received an addition of the same height to extend the single storey portion the full width of the house. A low pitched shed roof covers this section. A single storey wooden porch extends the full width of the front of the house excluding the circular tower. The porch is supported on square sandstone piers which rise to approximately 3 feet above the level of the porch floor which is between 18 inches and 24 inches above grade. Tapered square white painted wooden columns sitting on the sandstone caps of the piers, extend to support the flattened tudor arches of the porch, the roof of which is just above the level of the main entrance door and front room window. Windows are of wood throughout with sandstone sills. Wood storm sashes of original pattern, two over two, are in position in the main windows which are single sash with the upper quarter of leaded light. All windows and storms are painted white. Both gables are faced in wood shingles in a fish scale pattern, painted dark green, as are the fascias and soffits of the house. The asphalt roof shingles are also green. Window patterns to the attic storey are identical in both gables, consisting of a triple window of two almost square fixed lights on either side of vertically narrow, rectangular centre light of almost twice the light of those on either side. This centre window has a double hung sash. This is an extremely simple, robust but elegantly proportioned house and it is one of the least altered examples of a Northern Ontario middle-class residence in the City. Every detail of the exterior of the house has been reduced to a maximum of function with a minimum of ornament, appropriate to both the climate and availability of skilled trades. At the same time, the house was obviously designed and built with an eye to capitalism on a very simple plan form and embellishing with two main additional elements in the circular tower and the entrance porch to provide a residence of some distinction.