John Graham Residence

The John Graham Residence, located at 3304 Wellington Avenue in Vancouver, British Columbia, is designed in the Gabled Vernacular Style.

The John Graham Residence has historic value as a representation of the Gabled Vernacular style, a typical and popular house style from the early Twentieth Century in the Lower Mainland. It is valued for the integrity of that style.

The house is further valued for being an early and extant house in what was a semi-rural suburban neighbourhood that was settled by colonials in around the 1880s. Its suburban location between Vancouver and New Westminster likely made this location financially desirable, and its proximity to the BC Electric Railway service, with a station (the Collingwood West Station) located two blocks away, likely provided easy transportation into either Vancouver or New Westminster. Early occupants of this house included John Graham (a real estate agent), John W. McLean (a Locomotive Engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway), Rupert and Ethel Parkinson (automobile mechanic), and Paul C. Reid (Janitor with the Federal Government).

Additionally, the house is valued for its continued use as a single-family dwelling and for the way it contributes to the community's sense of identity by being a well-maintained historic building on a corner lot where it is highly visible to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

The key elements that define the heritage character of the John Graham Residence include:

- Location on and orientation to Wellington Avenue on a corner site

- The original form, scale and massing as expressed by its: One-and-a-half storey height; height of the main level a few feet above grade; Gable roof, front facing with a medium pitch; full-width, covered front porch; three-sided bay window on the northwest elevation

- Its Gabled Vernacular Style design and architectural elements such as the: Front facing gable roof, medium pitch; narrow overhanging, closed eaves; horizontal wood trim separating the fish-scale shingles at the top of the gable ends from the rest of the gable in order to imply a closed gable; interior brick chimney; full-width front porch with an open rail system and square wood posts holding up a hipped roof

- Exterior cladding, in particular: Wood fish-scale shingles in the front and rear gables; narrow, wood lap siding; wood corner boards

- Location and fenestration pattern of window openings, some with the original wood frames and with horns and protruding wood sills.