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Home My WebLink AboutHK - 2014-09-30 - 1805 Huron Rd - Proposed Demolition of Listed Buildings APPENDIX`A': STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE Statement of Significance 1805 Huron Road Municipal Address: 1805 Huron Road, Kitchener Legal Description: GCT Part Lot 147, Plan 585 Part Lots h, 1-5 Year Built: c. 1861 Ward 5 Architectural Style: Vernacular ° Original Owner: Abraham Cressman w — Original Use: Farm House & tM11..Wr° 91 Outbuildings Condition: Description of Historic Place 1805 Huron Road is a mid 19th century building built in the vernacular architectural style. The building is situated on a 38.2 acre parcel of land located on the north side of Huron Road between Trussler Road and Amand Drive in the Trussler Planning Community of the City of Kitchener within the Region of Waterloo. The principal resources that contribute to the heritage value are the farmhouse and barn. Heritage Value 1805 Huron Road is recognized for its design, physical, contextual, historical and associative values. The design and physical values relate to the age, material and method of construction. The farmhouse is an early and representative example of a log building. The original log building exists under layers of cladding, including clapboard, insulbrick and aluminum siding. The building features: log construction; original window openings, including the round window in the south wing; roofline with return eaves; and, pine floors. The barn is a representative example from the 19th century and it displays a high degree of historical craftsmanship. The barn features: gambrel roof; adze-hewn members with mortised joints; rafters; original floor boards; joists, beams and posts supporting the first floor; stone foundation; and, original vertical cladding boards. The contextual value relates to the location of the house and barn along Huron Road. The historic and associative values relate to the original, previous and existing owners of the farm. Preliminary research suggests that the farm was established by Abraham Cressman around 1861 . Conrad Ludolph purchased the property around 1866 and members of the Ludolph family owned the property until 1957. Since 1957 the property has been owned by the Doehn family. 4 - 1 APPENDIX`A': STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE Heritage Attributes The heritage value of 1805 Huron Road resides in the following heritage attributes: ■ All elements related to the construction and vernacular architectural style of the house, including: o Log construction; • Original window openings of the log house, including the covered round window in the south wing; • Roofline with return eaves; and, • Pine floor of the log house. • All elements related to the construction of the barn, including: o Adze-hewn members with mortised joints; • Rafters; • Original floor boards; • Joists, beams, and posts supporting the first floor; • Stone foundation; and, • Original vertical cladding boards. Photos w 9 f . it Nl r� JM i m, /'� iP 1805 Huron Road 4 - 2 APPENDIX`A': STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE Excerpt from 'Cultural Heritage Background Study: Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes: Southwest Kitchener Urban Areas Study"prepared by Nancy Z. Tausky dated August 2010 6.2.5 1805 Huron Road LegfilDe,'cripfiom, Part Lot 147 G.C.T.,Plan 585.Part Lots 1-,5 Tipe QfHistorical R�,nowce.: House and bani B1,711,THERITAGEA.MD CULTI,,PAL LANDSCAPE BACKGROUAID STUDY 61 sourhuesr Kirrhener sruc�), Hi,,s,,top-ic,r,4s,oci(,iti'),e Volide.- The 1861 Tremaine map shows, this Property ill the hands of Abraham Cressman. a Meturonite fanner(see figure 6)-1 the house indicated oil the aural) is likely the log house (hat compris'es the West wing of the exi,4ing residence, Cressman had purchased all 83 acres of the lot in 1835 and sold the westell] half of hisacl-eage to Sailluel Cressillin ill 1846. Abraham parted with 1he rest of lays fann in bits and pieces 3 acres to Jolul, Shultz ill 1860, 2 acres to Jacob Cressman in 186 1. 10 to Abraham 15, Cressmaii and 10 to Jolai Cres'sman ill 1870. 14 to Joseph Tayor in 1892, Ill an kind of reverse order. ("onrad Ludolph began to accumulate property oil both halves of the lot as early as 186& Members of the Ludolph family retained the subJect prol)erly until 1857. when it was purchased by a lkln Doelim It now corripl-ises one of several Doehn family fainns (Land Records, Ryan 1991). F. .................. ,w Figure 46� House at 1805 Huron Road De,,J p,tlPh'v�,icol Value: The house at 1865 Huron Road is the product of seveval local pvacices in the realm of house constrildioll: it is a niontage of buildings. derived from different places aat different thnes; it Nmbours as logstnichire as part of the premit house,, and there is eveli the characteristic local VAIrld Avindow in the south 2able. though it has been covered by 4 - 3 APPENDIX`A': STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE BUILT HERITAGE A.YD CLITURAL L-LVDS(:,A'PE BACKGROEWD STUDY 62 Sourinvest Kttchow L'vban Areas Sruc(v the alumillum siding that now clads, the lious're (fignLre 4' . The west win is a log house reputed to have been moved to its pi-ewat location froma position jum east of the present bam. The main pail of the house is also said to have been moved from a different, undisclosed site: its general shape and its hipped-roofed retumed eaves sug Best an early hventieth-cenflul, date, when it would have been imported by the Ludolph family, A member (,-)f the family added a back addition iii the 1940s. built on site in a rather outdated style to matcli the frout of the house, "T"he various wing Bna ve been unified througli a succession of claddings,' clapboard. insulbrick (added in the late 1950s). and the redaltuninum siding. added aromid 1970(Ryan 1 99 1) Lmjdscqj)e Valne: The older two parts of the house have probably occupied their present site at least since the 1920s, and the older part of the bam (that with the gambrel roof, see figme 47) appears to date back carrell into the nineteenth-century. The beams, posts, and girts of the upper barn are adze-he"m and joirred with mortise-and-tenon joints: the rafters, are of veiy roughly squared saplings. the joists supporting the first floor are leveled tree to it supported by thick squared beants>. supported in turn by posts formed of s'quared tree ti-miks. The present farnistead. readily obsen-able fi�om Hurou Road. has settled into place as, as historic entity. holdin,- as promineut po,,ition in the line of historic properties along the ma& Kll ff Im f 0 Figure 47- The barn at l805lluro n Road,seen,fume the southeast Nancy Z. Tau sky Herit.ge clonsultant 4 - 4 APPENDIX`A': STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE B&'IL T HERIT4 Gf.4:NVD C"Ll T[TR-4L L.4jV'DSC'.,4PE B.4CKGROUND S.TUDY 63 Sowlnvest Kitchener T-Trban.4reas Sruc�y P1 vhTni�u-u y List Of the house:: The log section of the house, Original window apertures of the log house Prole floors of the log house Footprint and profile of the house as, a whole Retunied eaves The fenestration pattern of the main house The (now co�,rered) round window, in the south wing Of the barn: Adze-hewn members with mortised joints R,-t ft e rs, Original floor boards Joists., beanis. and posts supporting die first floor Stone foinid.ation Any original vertical cladding boards Evaluarion: This repoil assei-ts that the house and the older part of the bani at 1805 Huron Road merit listing in the Afupiicip l Heiirage Register Designation under the Ontcuio He7lrage "1 0 't . .z4ct., and conservation as it is defined in the Provi-ncial Poh.cY Srarenwnt. Reasonsjbr Evaluarioo,:' In sonle ways, this house posits as borderline case for listing. Its aluminum cladding, its somewhat haphazard conaposition. the lack of nn il'.)ortant interior fittings, and the fact that the older portions of the house do not sit on their original sites all dr etract from its potential significance. It is the fact that it combines the several local building tendencies mentioned above., the presence of the log structure within envelope of the building, and the qualities of the barn that have swayed the consultant's evaluation in as more positive direction. Because of these virtues. the property can be seen to have physical value because it harbours an early example of as log house and a rept-esentati�,re nineteenth- centmy barn that displays a high degree of historical craftsmanship, to lia,%,re historical value because it has direct associations with as pioneer family and the agricultural practices of the area and because it can yield information that contributes to an understanding of the conininnitys culture,, and to have contextual value because in helps to defilie and support the character of an area and because it is physically. functionally, visually., and historically linked'w'itli its surroundings, 4 - 5