Birkenshaw Residence
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1908 605 13 Avenue SW
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This substantial house in the Beltline (Connaught) was built in 1908 for O.S. Chapin, a Chicago-born implement and carriage dealer. The two-storey, brick house sits on a high stone basement, and is topped by a hipped roof with broad eaves and illuminated by dormer windows. The outer bays on the facade project as bay windows, and a stone-post verandah with a wood pediment stands before the entrance. The house is a very good example of a larger townhouse of the period. The house was subsequently inhabited by a number of occupants, including John Mosley, proprietor of the Imperial Hotel, |
and by William Birkenshaw. Birkenshaw may have been the original owner of the property, buying it as vacant land in or around 1907. In 1979, the house became a social centre for senior citizens living in the adjacent apartment building, The Birkenshaw at 605 - 13 Avenue SW. It was designated a Registered Historical Resource in 1981. The house is in excellent condition and is one component of an excellent historic grouping which includes the Lougheed Residence. (1982) |
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