H.T. Barnes House(9/1904)
239 Pine Avenue [West], Montreal, QC, Canada
Residential, Urban house basement, 2 floors, 3 bedrooms]; brick; wall bearing

Client: Dr. Howard T. Barnes
Architect: E. & W.S. Maxwell

Description: A smaller version of a model popular with the Maxwell firm: the two-storey row house faced with red brick, with a bay window backed with a simplified pediment on the cornice line. Dr. Barnes, born in Woburn, Mass. in 1873, came to Canada in 1879, was educated at McGill University and became MacDonald Professor of Physics and Director of the Physics Building of his alma mater. The original floor plans of 1904 show a modest, 26 feet wide residence with back to back drawing and dining room on the ground floor, three bedrooms and a library upstairs. The front façade features a main entrance and a smaller ''service'' entrance leading to the basement. The back façade was slanted; this was ''corrected'' in 1912 when a small addition (bedroom, study and bathroom) expanded the house to the north. The house stood several feet east of the Baile houses at 303 Pine (now 515-517 West) where McGill’s Athletics facilities stand.

Holdings: Urban house (basement, 2 floors, 3 bedrooms); brick; wall bearing
24 Drawings: 20 ink on linen; 1 ink on paper; 3 pencil on paper
3 Development drawings: plan, entry
5 Working drawings: floor plans, elevations
16 Detail drawings: elevations, library, bedrooms, entries, staircases, chimneys, mantelpieces, doors, coal bin, fittings, plaster cornices, fence