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West Vancouver Historical Society The Harrison House - Part II - 2587 Kings Avenue by Ken Harrison The house at 2587 Kings was the second one built for Benjamin Harrison from London and his wife Anna from Glasgow. In Glasgow, Anna had been a teacher specializing in teaching the blind and was an early Braille practitioner In Highgate (north London), Ben had managed his father's grocery, hardware and related shops. In the March 2014 issue, 1 described their arrival in West Vancouver, via Prince Rupert and Vancouver, and the construction of their first home in 1913 at 2567 Kings Avenue. Ben's office in Vancouver was very close to that of architect Hugh Hodgson, who had built his own home a year earlier in Dundarave about three blocks from the Harrisons. Hugh was about six years younger than Ben, and their two families were fairly close. Both men normally walked from Dundarave to the West Van ferry dock at 14th to commute to work in Vancouver and it is probable that they sometimes travelled together On a business trip for his import business to Seattle Ben saw a house whose design caught his fancy. He had Hodgson adapt the design to the steep side hill slope of the adjacent property at 2587 Kings (DL 555, Block 18, lot 21). After living in their first house for ten years, Ben and Anna purchased the two adjacent properties and during 1923 had the large Craftsman style house built, with two storeys above a full basement. The left * f' photo shows the east side of the house immediately after completion, with its grand front entry stairs. 1 remember the marble bedroom washbasins and the "dumb waiter" for laundry between both upper floors and the basement laundry area. In addition to an electric washing machine like a converted barrel, there was a cast iron "Mangle" machine, operated by a large cast iron crank wheel. Its huge wooden rollers were used to wring wet laundry and to roll=press clothes and sheets. The right photo shows the view from the junction of Haywood and Kings Avenues about 1933, with the front stairs on the right. The covered sun deck and the bay window in the living room are W2rapped in climbing grape vines and roses, and the poplar trees near the front entrance had gown to considerable height during the nine years since the earlier photo. Over the next few years they developed an ornate garden at 2577 Kings, the property between the two houses, including "forest paths", frog ponds, and more. The abandoned section of Keith Road (described in the earlier article) was left in place as one of the garden paths, crossing both 2577 and 2587 until a house was built on 2577 in the 1970's. 1 believe that it still runs across the rear of the house at 2587. These photographs show a section of the garden and Anna with her sons Rupert and Ernest about 1930 on another of the paths. Page 4