138 Dallas Road
138 Dallas Road, Victoria, Colombie-Britannique, V8V, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
1977/01/27
Autre nom(s)
Bill Mudge House
Charles Newcombe House
Laren House
138 Dallas Road
Newcombe House
Liens et documents
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Date(s) de construction
1908/01/01
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2005/11/02
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
138 Dallas Road is a symmetric, two-storey, flat-roofed, brick building set well back from the road and overlooking the Ogden Point shipping piers and Victoria Harbour. It is situated in the southwestern part of the James Bay neighbourhood, a peninsula southwest of Victoria's Inner Harbour and downtown core.
Valeur patrimoniale
138 Dallas Road, built in 1908, is valued as an outstanding and unique example of the Classical Revival style that was popular with Victoria homeowners at the turn of the twentieth century. The style was fashionable in the United States and frequently manifested itself in Victoria simply in isolated architectural elements evoking the values of classical culture. Elements such as columns, dentils, or pediments were added to a house with a different dominant style. This house is also important because it was designed by William Ridgway Wilson, an architect who made notable contributions to the commercial and domestic structures of Victoria. Many of Wilson's houses appealed to the large Anglophile upper middle-class public in Victoria because they were based on distinctive English examples. This house is unique in Victoria because its front façade echoes the Classically-inspired architecture of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century English colonies, most notably India, Hong Kong and the southern United States.
This house is also valued because it was built for the widowed Charles Frederick Newcombe, who was an amateur naturalist and British Columbia's first psychiatrist. British-born Newcombe is best known as a controversial collector of First Nations totem poles and artifacts for foreign museums and for what would eventually become the Royal British Columbia Museum. It is valued as well as the residence of his reclusive bachelor son, William Newcombe, who was a close friend and early supporter, through his purchase of her works, of artist Emily Carr.
Sources: City of Victoria Planning & Development Department; Victoria Heritage Foundation
Éléments caractéristiques
The character-defining elements of 138 Dallas Road include:
- its position set back from the street, overlooking Ogden Point and Victoria Harbour
- its unimpeded view of the ocean and the Olympic Mountains
- its brickwork
- its full-width double loggia on the front façade
- its Classical Revival architectural features, such as the balustrades on the roof and first and second floors with their engaged balusters, the square brick piers on the first floor, and the Tuscan columns on the second
- its strongly horizontal features, such as the belt course and wide eaves and frieze
- its two-storey angled bay windows, one on the front and two on the south side
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Colombie-Britannique
Autorité de reconnaissance
Administrations locales (C.-B.)
Loi habilitante
Local Government Act, art.967
Type de reconnaissance
Désignation patrimoniale
Date de reconnaissance
1977/01/27
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
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Thème - catégorie et type
- Exprimer la vie intellectuelle et culturelle
- L'architecture et l'aménagement
- Établir une vie sociale et communautaire
- L'éducation et le bien-être de la société
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Résidence
- Résidence collective
Historique
- Résidence
- Logement unifamilial
Architecte / Concepteur
William Ridgway Wilson
Constructeur
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Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Victoria Planning Dept.;
Victoria Heritage Foundation
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
DcRu-206
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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