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Online Heritage Inventory

McKinney House

General Information
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Type of Resource: Building
Common Name: McKinney House
Address: 6471 Dyke Road
Neighbourhood (Planning Area Name): Steveston
Construction Date: 1914
Current Owner: Private
Designated: Yes

Statement of Significance
Description of Site
The McKinney House is an imposing two-storey structure in the Edwardian Builder style. Recently moved and renovated.

 Statement of Values
The heritage value of the McKinney House lies in its association with the early residential pattern of development in Steveston. The development of this original residential fabric was created in part by the wealth of the local fishing and canning industries. The location of the house on a prominent corner lot gave it landmark status in its original location and speaks to the importance of the owners.
The McKinney House has aesthetic value as an excellent example of an Edwardian Builder house with Craftsman influences, a transitional style which was popular in the early twentieth century, prior to World War II.

 Character Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the site include:
· The early Edwardian Builder style of the entire house, which includes elements such as the vertical massing, hipped roof, and front verandah.
· The Craftsman influences of the house design, including a gabled dormer windows, open railing on the verandah, and square columns supporting the verandah roof.

 History
The McKinney House is an imposing two-storey structure in the Edwardian Builder style. Recently moved and renovated.

 Architectural Significance
Architectural Style
Edwardian with Craftsman Influence

 Building Type
Domestic

 Design Features
The house is rectangular in plan with a concrete foundation. The roof is pyramidal, with symmetrical hip dormers. A hipped skirt roof covers the full open front verandah, which has square tapered columns. The roof cover is asphalt shingles, presumably covering original cedar shingles. These columns have been enclosed within the first floor cladding and are no longer visible. The second floor porch, which may have been used as a sleeping porch, has been glassed in. The first floor of the house is clad in narrow bevelled siding; the second floor in twinned course shingles. The windows are double hung wooden sash with decorative bevelled and leaded glass with the exception of the glassed in porch. The building has been painted, and is now brick red and cream with gold and dark brown trim. The house has two side exterior painted brick chimneys and there is a bay window on the east elevation.

 Construction Method
Wood frame construction

 Landscape Significance
Landscape Element
Because the house has been relocated, there are no significant landscape elements associated with the site.

 Integrity
Alterations
The original context of the house has been altered due to its relocation. The house has been repainted and the front steps appear to be new. The original tapered columns visible at the first storey have been incorporated into the cladding and are not longer a feature element. The house retains much of its original character, and alterations, with the exception of context, appear to be minor.

 Original Location
No.

 Condition
The house is in very good condition.

 Lost
No

 Documentation
Evaluated By
Denise Cook BLA, PBD (Public History)

 Date
Wednesday, November 1, 2000

 Documentation
Inventory Sheets by Foundation Group Designs, January 1990
“Heritage Inventory Phase II” by Foundation Group Designs May 1989
“Richmond, Child of the Fraser” by Leslie J. Ross 1979

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