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13. 405 Crawford Street:
A Stable Becomes a Home
When the Bank of Montreal built a fine brick home
at 1004 Buxton Street (see number 14) for its
manager, the property also included a 34-foot by
18-foot wooden livestock barn.
Built in 1907, the barn was rezoned as 405 Crawford
Street, as announced on the large flat fieldstone in
the front flowerbed. In 1949, Ralph and Inez Dunlop
transformed the barn into a cheery yellow-sided house
with pots of red geraniums on the front steps and built
a 20-foot by 12-foot attached garage on the north side.
After Ralph’s death, Inez continued to live there until she
sold to Darwin Elliott in 1989. He changed the colour to
grey and re-shingled the roof.
Craig and Charity Taylor purchased the property in
1996, a first home for daughters Grace and Lily, perhaps
influencing Charity’s sister Amy Redding and Darcy
Gares to buy the “big house” next door later that year.
In 2002, the Taylors replaced the windows and added
mocha brown siding and white trim. They also made
changes as necessary in the kitchen to accommodate
modern appliances. During the upgrading, they found
old newspapers, sheaves of which had been used as
insulation between the walls.
This building sheltered animals for its first fortytwo
years. For the past sixty-two years, it has been an
attractive home, complete with basement and gabled
second storey, enjoyed by three families consecutively.
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