Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
262 Vidal Street North
Year Built: 1866 (or before)
Original Owner: John Turnball
Present Owner: Anglican Church of Canada
This small 2-storey home has a rectangular long façade with a wing at the rear and has been irregularly attached to St. George’s Anglican Church. It is a typical French Canadian house with red brick and yellow brick details. At either end of the building are gabled parapets which originally acted as firewalls and are very typical of French Canadian architecture.
The wall design and detail is quite elaborate on this house. Yellow recessed brick crosses are set within the red brick façade above each of the two front windows. A raised yellow brick trim around the crosses accents these wall details. As well, yellow bricks are used for quoining on each of the corners of the building. Above the quoining just below the roofline, red brickwork is corbelled into the gabled parapet.
In the centre of the façade is a gable with a gabled parapet end. The gabled parapet flashings are made of metal and are supported by a decorated red brick frieze. The typical window in this home has a segmental structural opening. The outside trim is quite unique. Raised and recessed yellow brick voussoirs are shaped into a label and raised yellow brick runs down each side of the window opening to form decorative quoins. Each window is then finished off with a limestone plain lug sill.
In the centre of the façade is one large French bay window with a metal roof and small pane windows. Centered in the front gable, above the bay window, are two semi-circular windows.
The major entranceway to the building is not on the façade of the building but is located on the right side of the wing on the rear.
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
262 Vidal Street North
Year Built: 1866 (or before)
Original Owner: John Turnball
Present Owner: Anglican Church of Canada
This small 2-storey home has a rectangular long façade with a wing at the rear and has been irregularly attached to St. George’s Anglican Church. It is a typical French Canadian house with red brick and yellow brick details. At either end of the building are gabled parapets which originally acted as firewalls and are very typical of French Canadian architecture.
The wall design and detail is quite elaborate on this house. Yellow recessed brick crosses are set within the red brick façade above each of the two front windows. A raised yellow brick trim around the crosses accents these wall details. As well, yellow bricks are used for quoining on each of the corners of the building. Above the quoining just below the roofline, red brickwork is corbelled into the gabled parapet.
In the centre of the façade is a gable with a gabled parapet end. The gabled parapet flashings are made of metal and are supported by a decorated red brick frieze. The typical window in this home has a segmental structural opening. The outside trim is quite unique. Raised and recessed yellow brick voussoirs are shaped into a label and raised yellow brick runs down each side of the window opening to form decorative quoins. Each window is then finished off with a limestone plain lug sill.
In the centre of the façade is one large French bay window with a metal roof and small pane windows. Centered in the front gable, above the bay window, are two semi-circular windows.
The major entranceway to the building is not on the façade of the building but is located on the right side of the wing on the rear.