The Towle Rooming House at 7579 Glover Road as seen from the north-east corner.

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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2019.022.001

Title

The Towle Rooming House at 7579 Glover Road as seen from the north-east corner.

Date

12 Nov. 2000.

Description

Colour photograph of the Towle Rooming House. The house has a mossy roof and two chimneys. It has white accents on the windows, doors, corner pieces and fence surrounding the porch. Several windows and doors are broken, missing or covered. Stairs leading up to an entrance of the house on the right side are visible. Various tools and debris is visible.

People/Subject

Towle Rooming House

The Towle Rooming house was located at 7579 Glover Road. Widowed Mrs. Eliza Towle had run the Commercial Hotel in Fort Langley. With the BCER Interurban line being built, she saw an opportunity and built this large house on this piece of property on the most northern part of what was the Hudson's Bay Company farm. She hoped to provide room and board for railway workers, but she died in January 1909 before the house or railway were complete. Her son George completed the house, and then used it as a boarding house. When he passed in 1920 it then went to his brother Stanley, who resided there until 1934. It sat on its prominent site, in much of its original condition with wraparound verandah, chamfered porch columns and bell-cast hip roof, until it burned down in December 2005.

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