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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.
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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.
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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.
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