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The Kitchen House, 1509 Mahon Avenue, North Vancouver. Built 1911.

Kitchen House centrepiece
of townhouse development =

THIS TALL Tudor Revival
home. with Craftsman influ-
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1190 MARINE DR., (AT PEMBERTON) Sundoy
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floor, the cedar shingles, and board
and batten at the foundation level.
Other features include a cross

NORTH SHORE
HERITAGE

east corner of ‘15th. and
Mahon, and is one of the early
homesinthe area’

It occupied a large property that
nearby neighbors refer to as the
orchard. :

Over the years it became run-
down and neglect set in as severaj
different..reniers occupied it.
According to one neighbor, once
when the drains were plugged,
blasting caps were used to unplug
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_ Fortunately this lovely home
has been saved from destruction
and is now the centrepiece of a new

By Dorothy Foster

townhouse development.

It has been sensitively retained
and restored anda number of
mature Douglas Firs and holly
blend well with the many sympa-
thetic modern plantings.

Hubert Kitchen built this house
on land acquired from Ross Peers
in 1911. There is no record of who
the architect or builder was .

Some of the Tudor Revival
influences would include the deco-
rative half-timbering at the second

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gable roofline with lower hip over
entry and porch, wooden sash case-
ment windows, an inset entry, and
decorative strapping over cedar
shingle siding. ;

The wonderful wrap-around
porch with southern and western
exposures is another feature that
adds so much to the charm of this
fine home.

This development, incorporating
a heritage house as a part of a larger
townhouse complex, was built in
1987 by M.C.K. Management, and
has helped to set a precedent in
retaining and preserving our her-
itage buildings on the North Shore.

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