John Henderson Residence

The John Henderson Residence is designated a Local Historic Place as a fine example of a well-preserved vernacular residential building in Saint John's South End. Typical features include its tall rectangular proportion and sloped shed roof, colourfully painted shingled siding, rear ell, vertical sliding wood windows and entrance porch with overhanging built-on room above. It forms part of an intact block on the lower stretch of Mecklenburg Street. Built in the first block that survived the Great Fire of 1877, its date of construction is not known. This vernacular style of plain wooden residence with a flat or shed roof with long ells, sometimes called "box style" or "Saint John Gothic style", is characteristic of the city. The style continued to be used in Saint John for many decades.