Grierson House

Grierson House is a small single storey wood framed house built in 1933 located on the southwest corner of Front Street and Bowron Avenue in North Quesnel, BC. The historic place includes the building and the parcel of land it occupies.

Grierson House holds social and cultural value as a physical reminder of the people who shaped the development of Quesnel. The house is named for David Grierson who was instrumental in building an electric plant on Baker Creek that would be operated by a water wheel and a standby unit for the town. Other owners of this house included D. D. and Effie Fraser during the 1940s and Jack and Mary (Moffat) Eagleson in the 1950’s, both prominent families in the community.

The character-defining elements of Grierson House include its:

- original form and massing

- elements from 1954 reconstruction

- covered entrance with pediment

- large picture windows on the façade

- central chimney

- pitched gable roof