39 Lewis Street

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.