Four Edmonton buildings designated as City Historic Resources

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The Edmonton City Council recently designated four more buildings as City Historic Resources, each capturing a piece of Edmonton’s heritage.

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City of Edmonton added city-owned Stone House and Summer Kitchen, Bonnie Doone’s Fig Residence and Westmount’s Stein Residence in the area partly occupied by the White Mud Equine Center, the city of Edmonton announced in October news. said to be. release.

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The City describes the City’s Historic Resources as buildings, structures, and landscapes that represent an important part of Edmonton’s development. Whether they capture a distinctive architectural style or relate to prominent figures and moments in the city’s history.

The city takes pride in preserving its heritage and architecture, and many Edmont residents are equally enthusiastic about the effort, said senior planner Eric Backstrom.

“It’s exciting to see these new heritage designations,” he said in a news release.

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The Figg Residence in south-central Edmonton was a one-and-a-half-story home originally built in 1914 on a farm near present-day 80th Avenue and 85th Street, the city’s heritage officer said in a statement in October. told to

English native Ethel Figg and her husband Ernest owned the house and moved it to its current location, near the Saint-Jean campus of the University of Alberta.

The couple had four children, including two boys who grew up to fight in World War II and died while serving in the military.

The city has financial incentives in place to help restore the city’s historic resources, and the current owners of Fig Residence will receive over $90,000 from the city’s Heritage Resource Reserve to restore the building .

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Further west, the Stone House and Summer Kitchen, both built around 1929, are now rented to the White Mud Horse Center Association, the city said.

Both buildings are unique (perhaps unsurprisingly) in that they were constructed of stone around 1929, the city says, and they are the Kaylor Cabins, bearing the surname of former Edmonton City Councilman Fred Keeler. He added that it was built on a farm just south of.

According to the city, Stone House will receive $300,000 from the Heritage Reserve and Summer Kitchen will receive $100,000.

Further north from the center of Horses, near the northern end of Westmount, the 1.5-story Stein Residence exemplifies artisan-style architecture, heritage officers said, and the house was built in 1912 for the family of the same name. Added that it was built.

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Joseph Stein worked as a sales representative for several companies, including the Edmonton Brewing and Malting Company, but when he died on Christmas Day 1944, his wife, Jenny, died in 1968. She rented rooms in the house to supplement her income until she herself died in 2011, the estate administrator said. It is also pointed out that he owned and lived in

The current owner of the Stein Residence will receive $100,000 from the Heritage Resource Reserve to restore the building, according to the city.

According to the city, Edmonton has designated 175 facilities as Historic Resources since 1985, including four newest.

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