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The Neville Curtis House at 5658 182 Street has been torn down to make way for redevelopment. Despite its listing on Surrey’s Heritage Register – a designation it shares with a handful of neighbouring character homes in the interwar enclave – there was little to be done to save it.
citizens relocated to this street, drawn to its semi rural estate character,” according to the Canadian Heritage Register. Former reeve of Surrey Robert D. MacKenzie built a craftsman bungalow at 5634 182 Street in 1922. Eva and Barry Creelman’s home at 5678 182 St. is nearby. Barry Creelman worked for the Surrey Co-op for 48 years, and helped found the Surrey Credit Union.
Eye on Surrey Curtis was an eye on Surrey during the early 1950s and ‘60s. His camera recorded
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By Jennifer Lang down,” she said. “It seems too easy and I think it’s time to stop… Most of these A listing on the City of Surrey’s heritage replacement homes do not fit in the existing register and attempts by the city’s herineighbourhood. Perhaps we should learn tage commission have failed to protect an from other countries the value of keeping 86-year-old home. older homes and fixing them up. This is not The Neville Curtis House in Cloverdale the same Surrey as 20 years ago.” has been torn down. In January, the city’s The 1930 craftsman at Heritage Advisory Com5658 182 Street was built mission opposed grantby its first owner, Neving a demolition permit ille Curtis, a prominent for the Neville Curtis local citizen and freelance House, and asked staff to photographer whose impose a 60-day proimages for the Vancouver tection order while the Sun and Surrey Leader are property was assessed. part of a collection at the However, in March Surrey Archives that are (“Heritage treasures in gradually being digitized, peril,” March 16), Coun. putting a new generation Dave Woods said there of Surrey residents in was little the city could touch online with their do to prevent the home’s The lot is ready for redevelopment. city’s past. demolition because it’s For Cloverdale’s Cathy privately owned. Craig, the demolition is bitter news. The neighbourhood is an enclave of heri“This was our grandparent’s house,” she tage homes built during the Depression that wrote on The Reporter’s Facebook Page last week, describing how lovely it was in its day, are listed on the city’s heritage register. But only one, the Cecil Heppell house at alluding to cherished family memories in 5818 182 Street, is formally protected by a the home. Heritage Revitalization Agreement specify“I grew up walking from my parents’ ing key elements to be retained or protected, house to my grandparents’ house so I knew the city’s main tool for preservation. the street and the people on it well.” She The large lots and location just east of the lives nearby and “so was watching what was historic town centre are a draw for developgoing on there,” she added. ers seeking to build large luxury homes. “I was just looking at photos taken in the “There’s been quite a lot of interest in house,” she said. “It had lovely hardwood that area,” said Don Luymas, manager of floors, some leaded windows and glass door community planning for the City of Surrey. handles on the inside doors. Lots of happy “Unless the house is protected, there’s not a memories spent there.” whole lot the commission can do.” Area resident Sylvia Evans was out of The street is a picturesque suburban idyll, town for a couple of weeks only to come populated by expansive lots with mature home to find three houses torn down in her landscaping and attractive character homes neighbourhood, including this one. that date back to the interwar years, when “Sad to see perfectly good homes taken a number of Surrey’s “more prominent
shining rodeo queens being ushered down Main Street, ceremonial throws at curling tournaments, and the uncertain first steps at kids’ dance recitals. His photographic legacy – some 7,000 negatives donated in the 1970s – constitutes a rich visual record of what life was like more than half a century ago. His father operated Curtis Dry Goods, a grocery store on Cloverdale’s Main Street. Curtis worked at and later owned the store. He also managed the B&K Feed Store in Cloverdale, between 1925 and 1953. He became a freelance writer and photographer in his 60s.
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