| I M A G E S: Drawings | |
Alfred Joyce House, Alterations and Additions([1897]) 602 Rockland Avenue, Outremont, QC, Canada Residential, Urban house [addition: basement, 2 floors, attic, 5 bedrooms, kitchen, dining room] Client: Alfred Joyce Description: Alfred Joyce was an affluent merchant and landowner. He owned many real estate properties on Montreal Island, a warehouse on Philips Square and a store on Cathcart Street. The latter stood across the street from the New Birks Building (Percy Nobbs, Architect) and was demolished in the early 1920s to make way for the Canada Cement Building (Ernest I. Barott Architect).
On Rockland Avenue in Outremont, his immense estate included a house built in late 19th Century, hothouses, greenhouses, stables and a tool house. It stretched 560 by 340 feet of prime urban land from Lajoie to Bernard Streets and from Hartland to Rockland Avenues. Edward Maxwell built a first addition to the mansion in 1897 in Tudor style, with roughcast walls adorned with half timbering. The addition included a kitchen and dining room on the ground floor, the owner’s bedroom, bathroom and another bedroom on the first floor, and three more bedrooms on the attic floor. The extension filled a gap between the existing house and a huge complex of hothouses, 87 feet long and 50 feet deep, also designed by E. Maxwell along with stables and other outbuildings. The hothouses were demolished in 1921by E. and W.S. Maxwell and replaced by a modest, brick-faced verandah. This final 10-feet wide addition straddled the 1987 addition with its main elevation facing towards the extremity of Ainslie Avenue.
Mr. Joyce may have contemplated, around 1925, subdividing his Outremont property and erecting prestigious residences for sale, as plans found in the Maxwelll archive suggest. Instead, the entire property has been converted into a splendid urban park: it bears the name Joyce Park, in honour of one of Outremont’s most influential citizens. The park’s quality is on par with Outremont’s reputation for well-designed and well-maintained urban parks. Holdings: Urban house (addition: basement, 2 floors, attic, 5 bedrooms, kitchen, dining room) | |
| I M A G E S: Drawings | |
| B A C K T O R E S U L T S N E W S E A R C H | |