Address: 3059 Carroll Street
Built: 1912
1912 householder: Robert Blaine, streetcar motormanThis colonial bungalow-style residence was built in 1912. It has a hipped, bellcast roof with a front facing dormer. It has front facing steps and an inset porch. There is a cantilevered, octagonal box bay on the front and another box bay on the side. The house is now covered in stucco, but its Edwardian character is unmistakable.
The house was built for Robert R. Blaine by building contractors Province & Turner. The building permit was issued on 12 March 1912 for a five room dwelling at a cost of $1,950. A septic tank permit for the property was issued on 15 April that year, so the house was probably occupied shortly afterwards.
Robert Rutherford Blaine was a streetcar motorman with the BC Electric Railway Company and one of many motorneers who lived in this neighbourhood. When Blaine was enumerated in early June 1911, he was unmarried and living in a boarding house on Pandora Avenue. But the future was rosy for the 35 year old Scottish-born bachelor. He was engaged to 26 year old Whilimina Longmore of Victoria. She, too, was born in Scotland. The couple were married on 23 June 1911 in Vancouver. We don't know where they resided in the months that followed, but in the Spring of 1912 this new house at 3059 Carroll Street was their home. They lived here for many years. Robert Blaine died in 1935, but Mrs. Blaine resided here until at least 1950.