39 Lewis Street

39 Lewis Street is a one-and-a-half storey, modified Colonial Bungalow style house, built in 1908, located in the James Bay neighbourhood of Victoria, B.C.

39 Lewis Street has historic and aesthetic value for contributing to the historic character of Lewis Street, a small dead-end street in the James Bay neighbourhood with an intact historic streetscape of houses of a variety of styles, built at the beginning of the twentieth century. The street is narrow, with no sidewalks, and the proximity of the houses to the street create a small, intimate urban scale which recalls the early years of the development of Victoria as a city. James Bay is significant as Victoria's oldest residential neighbourhood and for illustrating the early pattern of neighbourhood settlement where pioneer farms were subdivided to form the first suburbs. The close proximity and compact nature of this unusually intact historic streetscape offers a window into what a typical James Bay street might have looked like prior to World War Two.

Built in 1908 by William Knight, a carpenter, the house at 39 Lewis Street also has aesthetic value for illustrating a modified Colonial Bungalow home with elements of the Edwardian Arts and Crafts style of architecture. The house is valued as a representative example of the modest working class homes which sprang up due to the close walking distance to the industrial activity around Ogden Point which was fueled by the economic boom prior to World War One.

The elements that define the character of 39 Lewis Street include All elements of the modified Colonial Bungalow style including, but not limited to:

- Bellcast roof

- Angled bay window on front façade with cutaway brackets

- Proximity to the street

- Wood sash windows and art glass

- Exterior cladding of double bevel wood siding, wood trim and wood shingles

- Chamfered porch columns

- Second storey dormers

- Tall corbelled brick chimneys