This image illustrates the two storey south and west wood-clad facades with hipped-roof and front gable over two-storey bay window, central chimney, full-width main floor veranda and open balcony above and side bay window with hipped-roof. (March 2004)
Photo: City of Edmonton, 2004
- Built
- 1913
- Recognized
- 2000
- By
- Local government
The register’s text, word for word
Description
The Thomas Scott Residence consists of a two-storey, wood-frame residential building situated on a city lot in a mid-block location on a residential street in the historic Strathcona neighbourhood.
Heritage value
The 1912 Thomas Scott Residence is significant because of its architecture, which is an excellent example of the four-square style, which became popular during the Edwardian-era. Derived from American Colonial and Classical Revival precedents, it was typified by the use of symmetry and classical detailing.
The Thomas Scott Residence is also significant because of its association with the development of the Strathcona community, one of south Edmonton's oldest settled neighbourhoods, dating from the arrival of the railway in 1892, and a separate city until amalgamation with Edmonton in 1912.
SourceCity of Edmonton (Bylaw: 12226)
Character‑defining elements
The four-square architecture of the Thomas Scott Residence is expressed in character-defining elements such as:
- form, scale and massing;
- hipped roof configuration with central brick chimney and front gable over the projecting two-storey front bay;
- wide overhanging eaves;
- full-width, open front verandah with full-width second floor balcony, both with wood balustrades;
- wood double-hung and fixed sash windows;
- upper cedar shingle cladding and lower cedar clapboard siding separated by a continuous horizontal wood belly board.
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Location
9938 - 85 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E, Canada
53.52117° N, 113.48802° W
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From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, as last updated on December 12, 2025. The register’s text is shown word for word.