Hooper Homes of '28

Like bonbons in a candy box, these four cottage-style homes by Hooper Brothers are nicely displayed in an ad from July 1928.  Compact and rustic, with steeply pitched roofs and stucco finishes — I must go hunting for them this summer. Click on the pic make legible. 

Oh look, found one!

a nice job in Sandy Hill

 353-355 Stewart Street in Sandy Hill was built as a double during the 19-aughts. Many larger homes in Sandy and Centretown were eventually divided into apartments by floor, sometimes with external staircases to access the upper units. Sometimes these add-ons worked, too often they were eyesores. I'm not sure how many units this address comprises, but this audaciously upfront (sorry) stairwell (added in 2007) works, beautifully. The scale and style respect the neighbourhood's design history while the faux-quoins and simple lintel keystones tie the old facade to the new. The angled entrance offers a modernist nudge-and-wink, while the retaining wall and wrought iron fence remind us that Sandy Hill was a neighbourhood of distinction — and still is.

2 Robinson Avenue

 Here's an eye-grabber from the Ottawa Business Journal...

"A Montreal company wants to build more than 1,600 residential units as part of a five-tower development at the former site of the Iranian Cultural Centre in Sandy Hill.

Place Dor​ée Real Estate Holdings has filed an application with the city for a plan that would see four highrises of 30 storeys each as well as a nine-storey building at 2 Robinson Ave.  

Located near the intersection of Nicholas Street and the Queensway, the wedge-shaped, 5.7-acre plot of land used to be the home of the Iranian Cultural Centre. The facility closed in 2012 after the federal government under then-prime minister Stephen Harper expelled Iranian diplomats from Canada..."

Full article here.

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