When it comes to heritage conservation, one home has no peer.
During a Feb. 24 presentation of the 2020 heritage awards, City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan lauded Greg and Sarah Cormie, the owners of the Peers Residence at 736 East Third St., for their enhancement of the heritage home. The couple, as well as their architect and builder, shared in receiving the municipality’s Residential Conservation Award.
In 2017, the Cormies restored the home and had it protected by heritage designation bylaw while building a net zero infill duplex.
Built in 1910, the Edwardian/Craftsman home with a wraparound porch was constructed for lumberman and contractor Ross Rufus Peers, according to the city’s heritage registry. The Moodyville house was one of three on the block built during a short-lived, pre-Depression
boom period.
The city also awarded the home in 2008 when the pre-First World War example of “comfortable suburban housing” was raised on a new foundation.
Honourable mention went to the Bayne Residence at 348 West 15th St.
In the District of North Vancouver, the Blue Cabin, the last example of the squatters’ cabins that once dotted the Dollarton foreshore, earned the municipality’s 2019 heritage award. The award was presented on Feb. 25 “in recognition of the effort to restore, relocate, and repurpose the Blue Cabin into a floating artist residence.”
West Vancouver generally hands out heritage awards as part of community awards in October.
