3098 Albany Street

Address: 3098 Albany Street
Built: 1913
Householder: Frederick C. Bellamy, carpenter

A building permit for this residence was issued on 27 August 1912 to Gerald Graham, authorizing the construction of a four room dwelling at a cost of $1,500. Graham was a carpenter who lived in James Bay and this place may have been built as a speculative venture. A septic tank permit was issued for the property on 4 April 1913.

When the house was built, it had front facing steps leading to an inset entry. The original entrance is now covered by an enclosed porch, but the original transom window over the front door and colour-glass sidelights have been preserved. There are box bays on both sides of the front door and a box bay on the left side of the house. The house is clad in shingles that are laid in horizontal patterns. A pair of corbelled brick chimneys project from the bellcast hipped roof. The front facing dormer, with a rectangular mullioned window, is capped with a smaller bellcast hipped roof.

In 1913, the civic address for this property may have been 3128 Albany Street. If so, the first householder was another carpenter, Frederick C. Bellamy. Victoria City directories indicate that Sinclair M. McDougall, a machinist employed at the Yarrows Shipbuilding yard, lived here from 1917 until the mid-1920s.