Victoria Heritage Foundation

Hillside-Quadra Architectural Styles

Craftsman Bungalow (1900-29)
North American Arts & Crafts style in natural building materials. Typical features: 1 to 1½-storeys, low to medium-pitched roof with wide overhang, exposed rafter tails, beams & knee brackets, large front porch, posts on battered (tapered) piers

Edwardian Vernacular Arts & Crafts (1904-14)
A common builder’s style in Victoria. 1½-storeys, steeply-pitched roof, asymmetrical main floor, symmetrical upper, horizontal belt course, tips of bargeboards meet ends of belt course. Typical features: front-gabled, dormers on sides of roof, contrasting cladding at different levels, inset corner balanced by projecting baywindow

British Arts & Crafts (1905-30)
Vernacular building types from British regions and periods. Frequent Tudor references such as stucco cladding with half-timbering. Typical features: asymmetrical design, informal, functional plan, prominent chimney

English Cottage (1920-40)
Vernacular details derived from old English cottages.
Typical features: asymmetrical rooflines, steeply-pitched gables, arched entryways, clad in stucco, often with Tudor half-timbering details, casement windows, prominent exterior chimneys

A Short History of the Garage
The first horseless carriages belonged to the wealthy and were kept in the carriage house. As the automobile became more affordable to the middle classes in 1910-20, they were housed in a new type of outbuilding, often matching the architecture of the house. Garage doors evolved from double barn-style outward opening, to sideways sliding tracks, to vertically hinged folding doors and then to the overhead folding door. After the 1930s, cars began to move into the house, first to the basement and later attached to the side. This greatly affected the overall footprint and design of houses and led to the development of the suburbs. There are many period detached garages in this neighbourhood. Outbuildings can also be Heritage Designated.

Hillside-Quadra Architectural Features
Detailed architectural information on Hillside-Quadra buildings listed on the City of Victoria’s Heritage
Register, with a great deal of social history & many photographs, old & new, can be found in Victoria Heritage Foundation’s publication This Old House, Victoria’s Heritage Neighbourhoods, Volume 3: Rockland, Burnside, Harris Green, Hillside-Quadra, North Park & Oaklands and Volume 4: Fairfield, Gonzales & Jubilee.

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