Address: 617 Manchester Road
Built: 1910
1912 householder: John R. McCollum, lumber yard foreman

This compact, colonial-style bungalow was built in 1910 at a cost of $1,000. The building permit for the 1 storey, five room house was issued to John McCollum on 6 April 1910. A plumbing permit for this property was issued on 3 November 1910, so we can assume the house was finished and occupied then.

The bungalow has a characteristic bellcast hipped roof. There are two brick chimneys, one corbelled. There is a shallow box bay window on the right front and an octagonal bay midway down the right side. The recessed porch is supported by two posts with ornamental brackets. There is a one-over-one sash window facing the porch and front facing stairs.

The bungalow has a characteristic bellcast hipped roof. There are two brick chimneys, one corbelled. There is a shallow box bay window on the right front and an octagonal bay midway down the right side. The recessed porch is supported by two posts with ornamental brackets. There is a one-over-one sash window facing the porch and front facing stairs. The house is now covered in vinyl siding; originally, it would have been clad with double-drop wood siding, like its neighbours at 649 Manchester Road.

When the McCollum household was enumerated in June 1911, Robert McCollum was 38 years old. He was born in Ireland and came to Canada, with his English-born wife, Sarah, in 1904. She was 40 years old and the mother of their three young children: William, age 3; Alfred, 2; and Eleanor, 1. The children were all born in British Columbia.

In 1912, householder Robert McCollum was a yard foreman at the Puget Sound Lumber Company mill on Discovery Street.

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