Agenda Package - City of Vernon

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CAMPBELL HOUSE (2203 - 30th Avenue)
Courtesy of: Greater Vemon Museum and Archives #4716,1910
City of Vemon,2009
Description of Historic Place
The Campbell house is a two and one half storey free classic Queen Anne Revival house located
on the East Hill at the top of the hill on 30tb Avenue in Vemon. It is dominated by a corner
tower with a conical turret.
Heritage Value
Built in tSgS, the Campbell house is valued as a landm
downtown
, a tancher
known for
Vemon from the top of ls.ti.id. Hill" on 30d' Avenue' It
and prospector who owned the Morning Glory Mine in Ok
its association with the Campbell family, operators of a furniture store and funeral business in
Vernon for many years. The form is a variety of Queen Anne Revival. Based loosely on the
medieval revival styles of Richard Norman Shaw, this Anerican variant is a rambling woodframe
structure, likely designed from an American pattern book. The style was popular in the
Okanagan frorn the early 1890s to around 1910. This house is one of four built on the East Hill
above Pleasant Valley Road prior to 1900.
The house is notable for its f,rne design detail. It is cross-gabled with a tall, slender tower rising
for two stories about the first floor porch. A conical turret with a decorative finial above further
emphasizes the height. Queen Anne Revival architecture calls for the use of a variety of
materials to add texture to the surface of the structure. Here there are rows of fish scale shingles
alternating with drop siding, bay windows, and deeply boxed eaves and decorated gable ends and
trusses, extensive verandahs with furned porch rails and a balustrade, and decorative brackets.
Character-Defining Elements
-the two and one half storey massing of the house with cross-gables
-the corner tower with turret
-verandahs with turned rails
-original double hung windows
-drop siding and hsh-scale shingle cladding
-boxed eaves with decorated gable ends and trusses
-decorative brackets
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