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Guy Boyer House(1/1909) [Senneville Road], Senneville, QC, Canada Residential, Country house [basement, 2 floors, attic, 6 bedrooms, servants' hall]; roughcast; wall bearing Client: Guy Boyer Description: Senator Louis-J. Forget, owner of Bois-de-la-Roche (230) at Senneville designed by Edward Maxwell, turned again to Edward and his brother for plans for a summer house for his daughter Blanche and her husband Guy Boyer. This time the architects eschewed the Château or Shingle styles favoured hitherto and provided this early example of the vernacular. The Boyer house was an interpretation of the French Canadian manor house, with its gable elevations treated as mitoyen walls, its tall gables with diamond shingles tympanum; the steep shingle roof with its simple shed dormers, and stuccoed walls. Stone trims and simplified pilasters divided the main elevation into three sections and surrounded windows and the entrance. The living room was entered directly form the front porch and extended to the rear. The dining room and kitchen ''with a servants’ hall in a small annex'' were to the right, a den (used a billiard room) to the left. Three chambers and a nursery were on the first floor and three more bedrooms in the attic. A large verandah at the rear was later enclosed as a sun room. The architects also designed a spacious coach house with apartment on top; an ice house and a stone gate. This house was fairly similar to that of David S. Walker (636) built on Cote-des-Neiges Road the same year. A visit to the house, then owned by Talbot Johnson and Mrs. Mary Weil, was organized in 1982; unfortunately, the house was destroyed by fire before 1987. Holdings: Country house (basement, 2 floors, attic, 6 bedrooms, servants' hall); roughcast; wall bearing | |
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