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1. DESIGNATION
OF DEVONSHIRE PUBLIC SCHOOL, 100 BREEZEHILL AVENUE NORTH UNDER PART IV OF THE
ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT DÉSIGNATION DE L’ÉCOLE PUBLIQUE DEVONSHIRE, SITUÉE AU 100, AVENUE BREEZEHILL NORD, AUX TERMES DE LA PARTIE IV DE LA LOI SUR LE PATRIMOINE DE L’ONTARIO |
Committee recommendationS AS
AMENDED
That Council approve the designation
of Devonshire Public School, 100 Breezehill Avenue North under Part IV of the Ontario
Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Cultural Heritage Value,
attached as Document 4, subject to the following:
a. The
sequence of spaces comprising the formal entrance, including the original
vestibule screen, the original hall screen and the corner stone plaques be
included in the designation;
b. The
1974 gymnasium not be included in the designation.
RecommandationS modifiÉeS du Comité
a. la
désignation englobe les espaces successifs formant l’entrée d’origine, y
compris le grillage original du vestibule, le grillage original de la salle et
les plaques de coin en pierre;
b. la
désignation ne comprenne pas le gymnase datant de 1974.
Documentation
1.
Deputy
City Manager's report Planning, Transit
and the Environment dated 2 June 2008 (ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0128).
2.
LACAC
Extract of Draft Minutes of 12 June 2008.
Report
to/Rapport au :
Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee
Comité consultatif sur la
conservation de l'architecture locale
and /
et
Planning
and Environment Committee
Comité de l'urbanisme et de
l'environnement
and Council / et au Conseil
02 June 2008 / le 02 juin 2008
Submitted by/Soumis par : Nancy Schepers,
Deputy City Manager / Directrice municipale adjointe,
Planning, Transit and the Environment/
Urbanisme, Transport en commun et Environnement
Contact
Person/Personne Ressource : Grant Lindsay, Manager / Gestionnaire,
Development Approvals / Approbation des demandes d'aménagement, Planning Branch/Direction
de l'urbanisme
(613)
580-2424, 13242 Grant.Lindsay@ottawa.ca
REPORT RECOMMENDATION
That the Local Architectural Conservation
Advisory Committee recommend that the Planning and Environment Committee
recommend Council approve the designation of Devonshire Public School, 100
Breezehill Avenue North under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Cultural
Heritage Value, attached as Document 4.
RECOMMANDATION DU RAPPORT
Que le Comité consultatif sur la conservation de
l’architecture locale recommande au Comité de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement
de recommander à son tour au Conseil municipal d’approuver la désignation de
l’école publique Devonshire, située au 100, avenue Breezehill Nord, aux termes
de la Loi sur le patrimoine de l’Ontario,
conformément à l’énoncé des raisons motivant la désignation de biens ayant une
valeur sur le plan du patrimoine culturel, qui font l’objet du document 4,
ci-annexé.
BACKGROUND
In March 2007 the Hintonburg Community Association submitted a request to the Department to have Devonshire Public School designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value. In June 2007 the Superintendent of Facilities at the Ottawa Carleton District School Board was notified of this request and informed that he would be notified when a report was scheduled to be presented to the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC).
DISCUSSION
Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act gives municipalities the authority to designate properties of cultural heritage value. In order to be designated, the City’s Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee considers the designation and makes a recommendation to Planning and Environment Committee and City Council. The Act requires that a statement of the property’s cultural heritage value or interest, including its heritage attributes, be prepared and published in a local newspaper. The Official Plan states that, “Individual buildings, structures and cultural heritage landscapes will be designated as properties of cultural heritage value under Part IV of the Heritage Act.”
Research conducted by staff confirmed that Devonshire Public School, which is included on the Heritage Reference List, has cultural heritage value and is worthy of protection under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. Ontario Regulation 09/06 outlines the criteria for determining cultural heritage value or interest (see Document 2).
Hintonburg became part of Ottawa in 1908 and soon after the School Board purchased land on Breezehill Avenue for a new school. Originally called Breeze Hill Avenue School, Devonshire Public School was constructed in 1910 to the designs of W.B. Garvock, the School Board’s architect, as an eight-room school. In 1920, the building was expanded and a new façade constructed to the designs W.C. Beattie, Garvock’s successor. Finally, in 1931, another architect, W.K. Jeffery, designed further additions. In 1921 when the building re-opened, the ceremony was presided over by the Governor-General, the Duke of Devonshire, and renamed in his honour. The construction of three additions within a period of 30 years illustrates how quickly the Hintonburg neighbourhood was growing during the first decades of the 20th century.
The school also provided community space.
The design of Devonshire Public School with its large windows, classrooms with high ceilings, doors with transoms, wide corridors and elaborate built-in cupboards reflects the theories of education popular at the time. Classrooms were designed to maximize natural light and to ensure healthy air circulation and to make it easier for teachers to conduct their duties.
Devonshire Public School meets a number of the criteria in Ontario Regulation 09/06; it is a representative example of Ottawa public school architecture from the beginning of the 20th century. The school has direct associations with the early history of the Hintonburg neighbourhood and was one of its important institutions, and is the work of public School Board’s architects who contributed to the development of a distinctive style of school architecture in the city and it is a community landmark.
CONSULTATION
The Dalhousie Community Association, Heritage Ottawa and the Ward Councillor, Christine Leadman, are aware of the proposed designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.
The Department notified the Ottawa Carleton Public School Board of the community’s request for designation in June 2007. In May 2008, the Department informed the Ottawa Carleton District School Board that a report was to be considered by the LACAC on June 12, 2008.
If Council approves the recommendations in this report, a “Notice of Intention to Designate” is published in the Citizen and Le Droit in accordance with the Ontario Heritage Act. Anyone wishing to object to the proposed designation may do so within thirty days of the publication of the “Notice.” If there are objections, a Conservation Review Board hearing is scheduled to hear them and report to Council. Following the hearing Council can either uphold the designation or withdraw it. The property owner is informed by letter of this procedure.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
The cost of the statutory advertising in the “Ottawa Citizen” and “Le Droit” shall be paid from the 2008 Operating budget of the Planning Branch, account number 112762-502210.
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
Document 1 Location Map
Document 2 Regulation 09/06
Document 3 Heritage Survey and Evaluation Form
Document 4 Statement of Cultural Heritage Value
DISPOSITION
City Clerk’s Branch, to notify the property owner (The Ottawa Carleton District School Board, 133 Greenbank Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 6L3) and the Ontario Heritage Trust (10 Adelaide Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1J3) of Council’s decision to designate Devonshire Public School, 100 Breezehill North, Ottawa under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Planning, Transit and the Environment Department, Planning Branch to advertise the Notice of Intention to Designate and subsequent Notice of the passage of the designation by-law.
Legal Services Branch to prepare the designation by-law and submit it to City Council for enactment and register the by-law on title following passage by Council.
Ontario Heritage
Act
ONTARIO REGULATION
9/06
CRITERIA FOR
DETERMINING CULTURAL HERITAGE VALUE OR INTEREST
Consolidation
Period: From January 25, 2006
to the e-Laws currency date.
No amendments.
This is the English
version of a bilingual regulation.
Criteria
1. (1) The criteria set out in subsection (2) are
prescribed for the purposes of clause 29 (1) (a) of the Act. O. Reg. 9/06,
s. 1 (1).
(2) A property may be designated under section 29
of the Act if it meets one or more of the following criteria for determining
whether it is of cultural heritage value or interest:
1. The property has
design value or physical value because it,
i. is a rare, unique,
representative or early example of a style, type, expression, material or
construction method,
ii. displays a high
degree of craftsmanship or artistic merit, or
iii. demonstrates a
high degree of technical or scientific achievement.
2. The property has
historical value or associative value because it,
i. has direct
associations with a theme, event, belief, person, activity, organization or
institution that is significant to a community,
ii. yields, or has the
potential to yield, information that contributes to an understanding of a
community or culture, or
iii. demonstrates or
reflects the work or ideas of an architect, artist, builder, designer or
theorist who is significant to a community.
3. The property has
contextual value because it,
i. is important in
defining, maintaining or supporting the character of an area,
ii. is physically, functionally,
visually or historically linked to its surroundings, or
iii. is a landmark.
O. Reg. 9/06, s. 1 (2).
Transition
2. This
Regulation does not apply in respect of a property if notice of intention to
designate it was given under subsection 29 (1.1) of the Act on or before
January 24, 2006. O. Reg. 9/06, s. 2.
HERITAGE SURVEY AND EVALUATION FORM
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Address |
100
Breezehill Avenue |
Building
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Devonshire
Public School |
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Construction date |
1910,
1920 |
Original
owner |
Ottawa
Public School Board |
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PHASE ONE EVALUATION |
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Potential significance |
Considerable |
Some |
Limited |
None |
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Design |
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2 |
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History |
3 |
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Context |
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2 |
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Phase One Score |
7 / 9 |
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Phase Two Classification |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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Design or Physical Value |
prepared
by: Brittney A. Bos |
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month/year:
May 2007 |
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Architecture
(style, building type, expression, material, construction method) |
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Devonshire
Public School is a dark brick, two storey structure with reinforced concrete
construction. It was originally designed in 1910 by W.C. Garvock, the Public
School Board’s architect, as an eight room school in the expanding west end
community. In 1920, a new façade was added by W. C. Beattie in the Collegiate
Gothic style. This style, popular in the early decades of the 20th
century, and characterized by plain stone or brick boxes embellished with
Gothic and/or Tudor detailing. W.K. Jeffery completed further additions in
1931, when Devonshire became an intermediate school. Architectural features
of the building include; stone detailing, Tudor arched openings, brick and
stone trimmed porches, and basement wood window assemblies. |
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Craftsmanship/Artistic
merit |
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Stone trim was used as decorative elements on the brick
walls and porches. Cut stone features and ornamentation is characteristic of
the Collegiate Gothic style. |
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Technical/Scientific
merit |
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N/A |
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Summary |
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Devonshire Public School is representative of a transition period in Ottawa school architecture. The basic plan and massing are characteristic of earlier Ottawa schools by W.B. Garvock, such as the Crichton Public School (1906), but the Tudoresque details are more characteristic of the W.C. Beattie schools, such as York Street school (1921). |
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Sources |
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Elder, Ken. Devonshire Community Public School Heritage
Value Statement 1.0 (2004); Citizen March 1 1949; Cummings,
H.R. The City of Ottawa Public Schools. |
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Historical and Associative Value |
prepared
by: Brittney A. Bos |
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month/year:
May 2007 |
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Date of
construction (factual/estimated) |
1910,
1920 |
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Themes/Events/Persons/Institutions |
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At the time of its opening in 1910, the school was
called Breezehill Avenue Public School. When the remodelled and enlarged
school was reopened in 1921, it was renamed ‘Devonshire’ for the Duke of
Devonshire, Governor General at the time, who attended the opening
ceremonies. In 1931 Devonshire Public School became the intermediate school
for the west end. Devonshire Public School is representative of the Ottawa
public board’s architectural and institutional history. |
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Community
History |
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Soon after Hintonburg became a part of Ottawa in 1908,
the city secured the Slater Estate on the west side of Breezehill Avenue for
the location of a new public school. Characterized by overcrowding and thus
multiple expansions, Devonshire Public School represents a phase in the rapid
growth and development of the west end community in the early decades of the
twentieth century. For several years, the Devonshire school housed the
Sunshine Class of Crippled Children, as well as provided space for a variety
of local community groups. |
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Designer/Architect |
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1910 – W.B. Garvock architect; A. Garvock, J. and C. Low,
A. Bowman and Son et al contractors: $48523 1920 – W.C. Beattie architect 1931 – W.K. Jeffery architect. 1974 – Alistair M. Ross architect Garvock, Beatty and Jeffery were the Board’s architects
and designed many of the city’s early 20th century schools. |
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Summary |
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Devonshire
Public School is an architectural representation of the rapid growth and
development of the west end soon after it was subsumed by the city of Ottawa
in 1908. It is one of three public schools within the former City of Ottawa
from the same period named after a Governor General. The school is
significant within the context of the development of the community and as an
example of Ottawa school board architecture.
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Sources |
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Same as
above |
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Contextual Value |
prepared
by: Brittney A. Bos |
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month/year:
May 2007 |
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Community
Character |
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The school
is a place of transition between an industrial area and a residential
neighborhood. To the rear is a high rise apartment building. There are
examples of residential housing from the period of the school in the area. |
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Context/Links
to Surroundings |
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The school is surrounded by housing typical of the era.
The school remains an important aesthetic feature in the neighborhood, and
reinforces the community’s heritage character. |
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Landmark |
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As a community
school, Devonshire is a local landmark. |
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Summary |
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Devonshire Public School and its surroundings reflect and document the historical roots of the community. The school is also an important feature within the surrounding streetscape and local neighbourhood. |
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Description of Property – Devonshire Public School
100 Breezehill Avenue
Devonshire Public School is located in the community of Hintonburg in Ottawa.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest
Devonshire Public School’s cultural heritage value lies in its Collegiate Gothic architectural style, its history and its contextual importance within the Hintonburg neighbourhood.
Breezehill Avenue Public School was designed in the popular Collegiate Gothic style by Ottawa Board of Education architect W.B. Garvock. The rapid growth of the west end caused overcrowding and an addition, including a new façade, was added in 1920 by Garvock’s successor, W.C. Beattie, who also added the Tudor detailing. When the school was reopened in 1921, the opening ceremonies were attended by the Duke of Devonshire, the Governor General at the time, and the school was renamed ‘Devonshire’ in his honour. W.K. Jeffery designed a gymnasium that was in 1931.
Devonshire Public School’s Collegiate Gothic style is typical of Ottawa schools of this era. It features the Tudor arch entranceway, stone and brick details and stone foundation common to these structures. Its large windows and plan reflect its use as a school and the emphasis placed on providing adequate light and air circulation.
Devonshire Public School’s contextual value lies in its associations with the community of Hintonburg. It was built soon after the community became a part of the City of Ottawa in 1908. Located at the eastern edge of the neighbourhood, the school is set beside its school yard and has a front lawn facing the street.
Description of Heritage Attributes
Key elements that define Devonshire Public School as a good example of Collegiate Gothic as interpreted by the Ottawa Board of Education, include;
· the front entrance with its Tudor arch and carved stone details
· the stone foundation
· decorative brick and stone detailing rendered in square and rectangular patterns
· large windows
· its setting, including the landscaped front yard
The 1974 gymnasium is not included in the designation.