1 Storey Garden Villa - The Story

Notwithstanding the number of urban profile that these three buildings have brought, it is fortunate that the Glebe group has resisted further highrise construction and massive improvement which would have destroyed the livability of the area. The most profitable of these is the highrise together with rowhouses at Pattersons Creek by William Teron. He was also partly chargeable for the excellent infill improvement alongside Pattersons Creek, alongside the south facet within the late eighties. 47. The 1913 Powell House from Pattersons Creek; the site of former Electric Park and the 1873 Grove Hotel (see p. Originally a effective picket Gothic constructing designed by J.W.H.Watts, it was replaced by Jefferson Church Hall and the current stone church designed by Cecil Burgess in 1929. The nook site on Bank Street was offered for industrial use. Jefferson Hall and the church parking lot on the again was sold to a Glebe developer, Douglas Casey in 1997, who removed them and constructed some remarkably profitable townhouses which match the adjoining church structure well.


Had the Cathedral had the assets to put in the highly ornamental Byzantine structure traditional to their religion, externally as well as internally, Clarey Street would have turn into one of Ottawa's more exotic streets. Architecturally, there might even have been a remarkable transition within the little Grace and Truth Chapel constructed by the Plymouth Brethren on Clarey Street through the 1920's. It was sold to the Orthodox Church in 1965, changing into the Cathedral Church of the Annunciation and St. Nicholas. At the identical conference as the Donceel's presentation, J. Magness reported that from what she noticed of the pottery within the Rockefeller Museum that "there was very, very little in the best way of positive wares". From 1904 onwards the Ottawa architect W.E.Noffke designed a number of positive large-eaved California and eclectic style homes round Patterson's Creek, all then roofed in spanish tile, as soon as one of many distinguishing options of the Glebe but now sadly mostly replaced by asphalt shingles, for causes of cost and upkeep. Especially advantageous is the Powell House (1913) on Glebe Avenue, and the Baker House (1912) on Browns Inlet which because the 1980s has been restored and is now surrounded by very effectively designed row homes by Wolfe Mohaupt.


Ottawa's and Canadas first woman Mayor, the redoubtable and generally ferocious, Boulton Paul Defiant but publicly spirited, Charlotte Whitton, was a Glebe resident on Renfrew Avenue at Central Park, from 1963 till her death in 1975. Assisted by Douglas Fullerton, she was politically instrumental in getting the Glebe Traffic Plan beneath approach within the early 1970's. Likewise Sylvia Holden and Lionel Britton, after whom two native parks adjoining to Lansdowne Park are named, have been well known social and sports activists during the sixties and seventies. Within the mid seventies the three highrises alongside the canal driveway to the east have been constructed. The verandah returns on three sides of the bay windowed entrance which has French windows with louvered shutters. In 1974 St. James turned the Glebe Community Centre, a objective which better fitted its secular origin structure. The land was granted to James Chisholm in 1829 and the household turned pioneers within the wool business. Shortly afterwards Minto Construction, based by Glebe resident Irving Greenberg, acquired the site, the bylaw was modified and the work was finished, moving the principle entrance to the nook at Fifth Avenue, providing the Glebe with a worthwhile covered public house and gaining a design award in the method.


At the same time some individuals referred to the Glebe immediately north of the fairground as Lansdowne Terrace. The Glebe has come to be what people manufactured from it and the individuals had been many and numerous. An example is the McKeen household, a few of whom were Plymouth Brethren, who began the chapel on Clarey Street and their first Grocery at Bank Street in the 1920's. Later they had been to be the founders of McKeen's IGA retailer, the main grocery retailer on Bank Street, and later, by one other department of the household, the adjacent Glebe Apothecary. Moreland the grocer constructed Morelands Hall where Flippers Restaurant now is at the corner of Bank Street and Fourth Avenue. One of the final major churches to be constructed was the Gospel Tabernacle at Bank Street and Rosebery Avenue in 1924. It is now the Chinese United Church. It options an atrium famous for its large-scale decoration exhibits during (Chinese and western) holidays. Now that location is a part of Minto's Fifth Avenue Court which presently serves as a large and pleasant coated public courtyard the place public concert events are sometimes to be heard. Tennis is played in Charleville Lawn Tennis Club which was founded in 1894 and took its identify from the original location at the nook of the Charleville and Cabra Roads.