Good news! The B-listed Heritage Register homes located at 424 and 428 East 3rd Street in North Vancouver have been saved! They will be moved by Nickel Bros starting at 8 PM this Saturday January 15. The move involves loading them onto trucks and driving them down Patrick Street to Seaspan’s dock. From there, they will be loaded onto barges, with the home at 428 (the Schiplo Residence) going to Bowen Island and the one at 424 (the Cook Residence) going to Lopez, Washington. You are welcome to come and view this spectacular Green Initiative in action!
Although the goal of North Shore Heritage is to retain heritage homes in-situ, we are not always successful. In this case, we tried to convince the developer to retain the homes as part of their development but they were unable to do so. So, we notified our house-moving friends at Nickel Bros and through their very hard work, they found new owners for both of the heritage homes and even found someone to take the house that currently sits between the two heritage homes. So, it’s a Double Win for Heritage and a Triple Win for the Environment!
The descriptions for each of these homes in the CNV Heritage Register are below:
COOK RESIDENCE 424 East 3rd Street – Built in 1927, this modest bungalow features a jerkin-headed front-gable roof, twin-coursed shingle cladding, decorative triangular eave brackets and triple assembly windows with decorative muntins in the upper sash. It demonstrates the late persistence of the Craftsman style, which was the most popular house style prior to World War One. It was constructed for Thomas W. Cook, a labourer at the Burrard Dry Dock.
Cook Residence - 424 East 3rd Street, North Vancouver
SCHIPLO RESIDENCE 428 East 3rd Street – Built in 1908, narrow and vertical in its proportions, the Schiplo Residence exhibits Carpenter ornamentation such as lathe-turned verandah columns with intricate scrollcut brackets. The house was built on a speculative basis by local carpenter William James Elder (1884-1965), who later worked at the Burrard Shipyards. Herman Louis Schiplo (1861-1910), a retired stonemason, and his wife Isabel (née Hartz, 1844-1931) were the initial residents. Their son, Herman William Schiplo (1887-1951), a customer accounts clerk at B.C. Electric Railway Company, subsequently made it his lifelong home, along with his wife Alice May (née Jackson, c.1884-1978).
Schiplo Residence - 428 East 3rd Street, North Vancouver
If you interested in a Covid-safe activity, please join us in the 400 block of East 3rd this Saturday evening to see these homes moved first onto a truck and then onto a barge.
MOVING NIGHT: Below please find some action shots from the move. They were taken to the Seaspan Dock but it’s private property so we don’t have photos of the homes on the barge.
The Schiplo Residence being moved to the street from its original 1908 location.
The Schiplo Residence coming down onto East 3rd Street.
The Cook Residence being moved down to 3rd Street from its original 1927 location
The Cook Residence was wider so the truck needed to carefully maneuver it over the curb and onto 3rd Street.
Lined up on East 3rd and ready to head west to St. Patrick’s Street.
The Schiplo Residence rounding the corner onto St. Patrick’s Street
The Cook Residence rounding the corner onto St. Patrick’s Street.
Ronel Dreyer of Nickel Bros, sitting on the front porch of the Schiplo Residence while the crew waiting for the hydro lines down St. Patrick to be removed. Ronel was instrumental in finding buyers for the two heritage homes and the 2014 duplex.
A beautiful view down St. Patrick’s Street beyond the jacked up homes to downtown Vancouver!