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A. O. Braman Residence
Edmonton
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place
The A.O. Braman Residence is a two storey wood-frame residential building with clinker brick on the first storey. The house located is on the second lot from the corner on a residential street in the historic Strathcona neighbourhood.
Heritage Value
The 1912 A.O. Braman Residence is significant because of its architecture, which is an excellent example, with superior design attributes, of the four-square style which became popular during the Edwardian Era. This four-square is also unique for its use of clinker brick. Now considered rare, this brick was sold as seconds as the brick was over burned. When over burned, the clinkers would get progressively harder and darker in colour with the excess heat. Many of the clinker brick have unique colours of green, gold and browns. The larger misshapen clinkers were at one time thrown away by the brick companies who would let people come to the brickyard and help themselves, while the bricks that held their shape were sold as seconds.
The A.O. Braman Residence is significant because of its association with the development of Strathcona community, one of south Edmonton’s oldest settled neighbourhoods dating from the arrival of the railway in 1892, and a separate city until amalgamation with Edmonton in 1912.
The first owner listed at this house was Adalbert O. Braman. Very little is known about him except that he was born in 1875 in the United States and immigrated to Edmonton in 1913. He was married to Lou Braman and had a son, Martin Braman.
Character-Defining Elements
The Four-square architecture of the A.O. Braman residence is expressed in character defining elements such as:
- form scale and massing;
- cedar shingled hipped-roof configurations on the main house with bellcast eaves;
- asymmetrically-located, open porch with cedar shingled gable front roof with double wood support posts;
- front facing dormer with tripartite windows;
- centrally located clinker brick chimney;
- wood single-hung windows with four to six pane arched-mullions in the upper sashes over one pane window on both the lower and upper floors;
- upper cedar shingle cladding with bellcast flare and lower clinker brick veneer, separated by a continuous horizontal wood band;
- wood front door, wood soffits, eaves, plus original fenestration pattern on south, east and west facades;
- interior original wood trims, stairs and handrails.
Location
| Street Address: |
10046 - 87 Avenue NW |
| Community: |
Edmonton |
| Boundaries: |
Lot 2, Block 113, Plan I9 |
| Contributing Resources: |
Buildings: 1
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ATS Legal Description:
PBL Legal Description (Cadastral Reference):
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Parcel |
I9
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113
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2
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Latitude/Longitude:
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Latitude |
Longitude |
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53.5229 |
-113.4909 |
Secondary Source |
NAD83 |
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Recognition
| Recognition Authority: |
Local Governments (AB) |
| Designation Status: |
Municipal Historic Resource |
| Date of Designation: |
2014/07/16 |
Historical Information
| Built: |
1912/01/01 |
| Period of Significance: |
1912 - Present |
| Theme(s): |
Peopling the Land : Settlement
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| Historic Function(s): |
Residence : Single Dwelling
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| Current Function(s): |
Residence : Single Dwelling
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Additional Information
| Object Number: |
4664-0354 |
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| Data Source: |
City of Edmonton, Sustainable Development Department, 10250 - 101 Street NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 3P4 |
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