Address: 536 Cecelia Road
Built: 1911
Householder: Thomas Habershon, clergyman

A plumbing permit was issued for this property on 30 May 1911 to Moses Pattison. He was a millwright and worked at the massive Canadian Puget Sound Lumber mill on Discovery Street, on the south side of Rock Bay. He lived at 590 Cecelia Road (now demolished) and may have built this house as a speculative investment, because it was vacant for a couple of years. But it was a well-built home, with an interesting hipped, bellcast roof and decorative art glass bay window. The interior fireplace and mantle are also attractive features.

City directories do not indicate if the house was occupied in 1912, but from 1915 to 1925 this was the home of the Reverend Theodore Habershon, pastor of the Douglas Street Baptist Church, his wife Annie, and their daughter Marie. Habershon and his wife emigrated from England in the early 1900s; their daughter was born in Ponoka, Alberta, in 1909. They went back to England the next year but returned to Canada in 1911. So, Marie would have been 9 or 10 years old when the family moved here and she probably attended Burnside School. The Habershon family vacated this house and moved to Seattle in 1926.

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