STEACY HOUSE

Highrise incorporates modest
Kdwardian home into design

THE STEACY House
stands proudly as a fine ex-
ample of a modest Edwar-
dian home. It was built for
Albert R. and Francis A.
Steacy.

NORTH SHORE
HERITAGE

by Dorothy Foster |

Albert Steacy was a grocer and
a community leader in the city’s
early history.

In 1910 he became president of
the Conservative Association, and
a year later, in the capacity of
chairman of the ‘school board, he
laid the foundation stone for
Ridgeway School.

Located near the southwest cor-
ner of Lonsdale and Sixth Street,
the Steacy House has been reposi-
tioned to be an integral part of a
new condominium development.

Built in 1905, it is one of North
Vancouver City’s earliest surviving
homes and.was the last remaining
single-family residence on Lons-
dale below the highway.

Rather than being demolished to
make way for a highrise, it has
been incorporated into a total de-
velopment plan. soe

It has recently been refurbished
and is an.example of what can be
done to both preserve heritage and
at the same. time accommodate
development. -

The house will be used for two
guest-type areas, or meeting space
for condo owners and _ their
visitors. tO

The architect Fo’ad Rafi
designed the highrise next to the
house using some of the features

- of the house itself.

This would include the window

treatment up the front, and the
« hip-shaped* roof, which isn’t in
the illustration above:

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Steacy House, 567 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, built 1905.

The developer for the project
was Fama Development Ltd.

“This Camellia development (as
it is now called because of the two
early plantings that have ‘been
repositiqned in front) is one of
several heritage preservation pro-
jects that ‘the City of North Van-
couver has embarked upon in

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‘The Steacy house is now legally
‘protected with a covenant so that
it will always be there.

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