Category Archives: West End Walks

West End Walks. The Spring houses. Of details and decay

On the upper blocks of Danforth Street, at the corner of Emery Street, sits a pair of imposing brick houses. Built in the early 1850s for members of a mercantile family whose history is now a bit vague, they now present a dichotomy of care and neglect.

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West End Walks. 3 Storer Street

Built for Henry Lewis in 1913. Design by John Calvin Stevens

Built in the then-popular Dutch Colonial Revival style. The ‘Dutch’ connections in said style are debatable at best but that’s another story.

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West End Walks. 53 Chadwick Street. A visitor from jolly old England

After the turn of the century, the West End became increasingly popular and increasingly filled with an eclectic mix of styles. Our subject is a rare example of the Tudor Revival style.

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