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J. McKergow House(-) 13 Rosemount Avenue, Westmount, QC, Canada Residential, Urban house [detached, basement, 2 floors, attic, 8 bedrooms]; brick; wall bearing Client: J. McKergow Description: John McKergow, was a member of the firm A.A. Ayer & Co. Ltd., a wholesale provision merchant. He was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University and was elected president of the Montreal Board of Trade in 1897. He also served as director of Sun Life Insurance.
McKergow’s house illustrates an eclectic design by Edward Maxwell. This house is reminiscent of motifs encountered in the Hugh Allan House (4),with its intricate and varied brick work livening its façade. The front elevation was divided vertically into two distinct sections, each with its own characteristically shaped parapet and contour. As in the Hugh Allan House, the front entrance was recessed into an arched stone cove. Next to the entrance was a Richardsonian double window. A Dutch gable to the south of it began as an octagonal bay window transforming into a windowed balcony rising two storeys to the top of the elevation.
The house itself was quite narrow and the interior layout was cloistered. A large oval-shaped dining room jutted out perpendicularly to the rest of the ground floor, creating its own south-facing bay window. McKergow’s private room to the north was secluded from the rest of the house. It contained an impressive mantel with pilasters and cornice. The dining room fireplace featured an oval-shaped bevelled British plate mirror set in an equally grand mantel that was capped with a pediment and framed by fluted columns. The mantel was finely ornamented with carvings and brass beads. Holdings: Urban house (detached, basement, 2 floors, attic, 8 bedrooms); brick; wall bearing | |
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