Heritage Register
North Park
2303 Quadra Street
Built
1910
Heritage-Registered
For: Herbert & Annie Shade
Designer/Contractor: Herbert Shade
ARCHITECTURE:
Herbert Shade was the plumbing and sewer inspector
for the City of Victoria, and, in the days before the concept of
conflict of interest, approved his own plumbing plan. On it,
he described this pleasant house as “a mansion and garage.”
This is a cross-gabled, 1½-storey, Arts & Crafts Craftsman
Bungalow with wide bracketed eaves. On the Queens
Av façade, there are two shallow, shed-roofed, cantilevered
box bays on large brackets, one now enclosed below, and a
gabled entry porch on the far right. There is a shallow
gabled bay on the left side of the house. An offset gabled
entry porch on the left front has paired and tripled heavy square posts on concrete caps supported on brick piers.
Brackets between the posts support the gable wall with its
small window. The porch and step balustrades are brick.
The house, which
was once shingled
with stucco and
half-timbering in the
porch gable, is now
stuccoed to the water
table; the foundation
and chimneys are
brick. Many windows
retain their art
glass leaded lights.
The original random
rock wall and klinker
brick gateposts
remain.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
The Shade
family occupied
the house until the
early 1950s. Herbert
Francis Shade (b.
Victoria 1875-1953) was the son of David Shade (c.1823-
1880) and Ellen (née Knight, c.1839-1908), who married
in Victoria in 1865.
In 1898, Herbert left Victoria
for the Klondike in pursuit of
riches. Upon his return in 1901, he
married Annie “Nancy” Elizabeth
Cobley (née Carter, b. Alpena,
MI 1880-1951), the daughter of
Stephen and Mary Carter, who
came to Victoria in 1891.
Herbert was the City plumbing
and sewer inspector from 1902-20, but resigned
because he was refused a raise
from $75 a month to $125. He
became a life insurance broker for
Mutual Life until retiring in 1939.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
Herbert’s step-brother Henry
Harman (1888-1971) lived at this
residence until he married Katie
Maud Jackson (1889-1963) in
1914. Herbert’s sister Margaret married W.A. Sprinkling
(1347 Vining St, Fernwood).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & IMAGES:
• Map of Victoria Heritage Register Properties
• North Park History
• North Park Heritage Register
• This Old House, Victoria's Heritage Neighbourhoods,
Volume Three: Rockland, Burnside, Harris Green,
Hillside-Quadra,
North Park & Oaklands
