This house, a beautiful blend of Italian Renaissance villa and Four Square styles, dates from 1934. The offset positioning of its two sections and its basket-handle arced windows are typical Italian Villa style. Its tall, triple-arched windows and hipped roof are characteristic of the Four Square style. The landscaping adds to its elegant appearance.
A basket-handle arch is an opening whose upper portion forms a low, semi-oval arch. The hipped roof has four slopes and covers a building with a roughly square floor plan.
Architectural Significance
Its architectural style is representative of early 20th-century English-speaking residential trends. The villa is interesting because of its connection to the Noranda bourgeoisie, as it housed the assistant manager of the Noranda mine and various executives. Along with the Roscoe House, this building is the only one with a copper roof in the Executives' Quarter (the area where, at the time, some of the Horne Mine's top executives lived, between 3e rue and Lac Osisko). (3rd Street and Lake Osisko)
Photo credit: Devamco, 2008