Address: 602 Dunedin Street
Built: 1893
1912 householder: Isabella Gregg, widow

This was the first dwelling erected on Dunedin Street and one of the earliest surviving family homes in the Burnside Gorge neigbhourhood. A water permit was issued for the property on 8 September 1893. In early Victoria directories, the property was addressed as No. 3 Dunedin Street.

Originally, this was the home of Abraham Bennett Gregg and Isabella Maxwell Gregg. They were of Irish descent and came to Victoria from New Brunswick in 1883. In the 1890s, he was the proprietor of A. Gregg & Sons, merchant tailors, with premises at 62 Yates Street. After his death in 1904, his widow and some of his children lived in this Dunedin Street home.

When the household was enumerated in June 1911, Mrs. Gregg was 80 years old; her son Arthur, a real estate agent, was 60 years old; daughter, Alice, a saleslady, was 52 years old, and daughter Elissa was 50 years old.

The house is now covered with stucco and devoid of any exterior ornaments. But underneath the painted stucco cladding is a late-Victorian, Queen Anne-style cottage. Its original architectural character is indicated by the assymetrical design of the building, with its steep roof and projecting gables, side porch and cutaway bay windows.

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