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Online Heritage Inventory

Every House

General Information
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Type of Resource: Building
Common Name: Every House
Address: 7620 No 2 Road
Neighbourhood (Planning Area Name): Blundell
Construction Date: 1911
Current Owner: Private
Designated: No

Statement of Significance
Description of Site
The Every house is a large Craftsman style home located on a residential main street among other single family houses of a similar scale but of newer age. The streetscape at the front of the house is enhanced by presence of a row of large maples.

 Statement of Values
The Every house is a significant heritage resource because its history touches on a variety of aspects of Richmond’ s development. Originally built during a pre World War I boom in the economy as the manager’s house of a proposed superport in Steveston, the house also has agricultural roots as a 20-acre dairy farm with associated orchard plantings. Designed by prominent Vancouver architect W.P. White, its location in a new and trendy neighbourhood reflects the residential development of Richmond during the first decades of the 20th century. Equally significant, it has aesthetic significance as an authentically well-maintained example of the Craftsman style.

 Character Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the site include:
· Demonstration of many typical elements of the Craftsman style, both in massing and details, including a front verandah, exposed rafter ends, bargeboards, decorative scroll cut triangular eave brackets, and gable screens designed as half-timbering.
· A complex roof structure consisting of a side gable with a lesser-pitched gable roof over the front entry, there is a front gable dormer, and a hip roof covering the open verandah
· The linear aspect of the row of large maples located in the narrow boulevard that extends across the front of the house
· The landscape that remains to the side and rear of the house contains mature trees and is reminiscent of the property’s days as a working farm.

 History
The Every house is a large Craftsman style home located on a residential main street among other single family houses of a similar scale but of newer age. The streetscape at the front of the house is enhanced by presence of a row of large maples.

 Architectural Significance
Architectural Style
Craftsman

 Building Type
Domestic

 Name of Architect or Builder
The architect of this house was W.P. White; the builders were the owners, J.E.T. Strickland and John Every.

 Design Features
The house is rectangular in plan, with some extensions added, and with asymmetrical massing. The foundation is fully excavated concrete. The roof is quite complex; it is a side gable with a lesser-pitched gable roof over the front entry, there is a front gable dormer, and a hip roof covering the open verandah, which is located on the south side of the front façade. The roof cover is now asphalt; according to the building plans, the original roof cover was cedar shingles. The house exhibits many typical elements of the Craftsman style, including exposed rafter ends, pointed bargeboards, decorative scroll cut triangular eave brackets, and gable screens designed as half-timbering. Of two original rear porches, one has become a bathroom and the other a sunroom. The windows are multi-paned wooden casement and wooden sash, with some leaded glass. The front steps are as originally designed, and their side railings are wide and stepped. The house cladding consists of 10” wide rough boards at the foundation, and cedar shingles at the first and second floors; this cladding is as specified in the original building plans. The building is painted blue with white trim.

 Construction Method
Wood frame construction.

 Landscape Significance
Landscape Element
Mature Landscape, Silver Maples, and Agricultural History

 Design Attributes
The house is sited within a mature landscape. The planting of the row of maples along the street edge is attributed to John Every. The house has agricultural roots in that it was once a 20-acre dairy farm, with associated orchards, that has since been subdivided.

 Integrity
Alterations
The porch has been glassed in at the rear and a new deck built, and the roof covering has been changed but all alterations are considered to be minor. The house is maintained in an authentic fashion.

 Original Location
Yes

 Condition
The house is in very good condition.

 Lost
No

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

 Date
Sunday, September 24, 2000

 Documentation
Inventory Sheets by Foundation Group Designs, January 1990
“Heritage Inventory Phase II” by Foundation Group Designs May 1989

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