Keillor House

• the sitting of the building, back from the street within a large yard along with its frontal orientation to the street, creating a dwelling with a highly visible civic presence;
• the exterior stone walls of coursed ashlar on the front façade and chimneys, with uncoursed roughly squared stone on the other façades;
• the central block front façade features bevelled rusticated joints and windows capped with flat arches at the ground floor, unexpressed joints and simple stone lintels spanning the window openings at the second floor, and rounded belt courses delineate the tops of the first and second floors;
• the two side wings feature stonework similar to the second floor of the central block, with the western wing boasting a square belt course at the ceiling level;
• the Palladian architectural design of the building, expressed with a symmetrical and ordered structure of two single-storey lateral wings flanking a main two-storey central block of five bays with a central door at the front façade;
• a medium-pitched hip-like gambrel roof on the central house block and dissimilar roofs on the side wings (atypical for the Palladian style), including a hip roof at the east wing and a shed roof at the west wing.

Interior Character-defining elements of the Keillor House include:

• original fenestration throughout, featuring 6 over 6 single-hung wood windows. The front façade windows and door are set within deep wood paneled recesses that include concealed internal shutters;
• the exterior main entry with its single door and transom sporting delicate diagonal mullions;
• the wood stair and railing with its squared balusters and wood newel post;
• the original window, door, and arch trim throughout the house, carved in an ornate Regency pattern;
• unpainted three-storey wood spiral stairs connecting the main floor kitchen to the third floor sloping-roofed servants’ room. The stairs are supported by a single continuous central structural newel;
• a rear three-storey kitchen and bedroom ell clad in wide horizontal wood clapboards;
• the kitchen featuring a large brick and stone cooking fireplace, stone slab hearth, simple painted wood mantle and carved sandstone sink;
• the interior plan consisting of a large formal entry hall leading to a dining room and parlour on either side (each leading to adjacent one-storey side rooms), the rear pantry, kitchen ell, and the upstairs bedrooms via the large staircase;
• the fireplaces throughout the house, which have been modified from their original condition to include ornate Victorian coal-burning fireplace/mantels on the main floor.