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George Drummond House (Donnacona)(1899) Saint-Bruno, QC, Canada Residential, Country house [basement, 2 floors, 6 bedrooms]; roughcast; wall bearing Client: George Drummond Description: This summer residence was built either for Sir George Alexander Drummond (1829-1910), Senator and President of the Bank of Montreal or for his son G. Drummond, born in 1858 and owner of Drummond, McCall & Co., Metal Merchants and Manufacturers (28 Victoria Square). It would be safer to assume the latter was the client, since he settled in Saint-Bruno at the invitation of Edson L. Pease (180), born in 1856. Hal B. Brown (30), born in 1857, had a house built nearby at the same time. G. Drummond Jr. had two sons and two daughters and lived in Montreal at 15 MacGregor Street while his father occupied a spectacular mansion on Sherbrooke Street at the south east corner of Metcalfe Street, designed by Taylor and Gordon architects in 1888.
The Drummond country house was a splendid rendition of the Stick style, with roughcast and half-timbering upper floor façades above boulder walls on the ground floor. The central pediment, adorned with wood brackets and plaster medallions, and the smaller dormers animated the facades without overcrowding the composition. The upper edge shingle roof was flared, a favourite Maxwell country residential feature. Surrounded on three sides by a verandah overlooking the lake, the ground floor was dominated by a full-width living room with bay-windows and settees at each end, and a library (beyond sliding doors) and the kitchen on either side. The house was extended many times but was ultimately destroyed. Holdings: Country house (basement, 2 floors, 6 bedrooms); roughcast; wall bearing | |
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