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The Hodgson House by Assistant Archivist Carol Howie Hugh Astley Hodgson was born in Australia in 1880 and raised on the Isle of Man, where he apprenticed with a local architect after graduating from college. After further studies in Liverpool he moved to San Francisco in 1907, and settled in Vancouver in 1910. In 1911 he opened an office in the Carter-Cotton Building on W est Hastings Street, in Vancouver, where he was kept busy designing a variety of buildings including small hotels, office/ retail buildings, apartments and houses. Shortly after arriving in Vancouver Hodgson purchased a large tract of land on Marine Drive in Dundarave, on which he built a simple Craftsman style bungalow with an attractive front porch facing south towards the water. It was one of the first houses to be built in that area. In 1912 Hodgson married Gertrude Southorn, whom he had met at Liverpool A rt School, and they moved into their newly completed home. Their only child Beatrice,was born in the front bedroom of the home in 1916. Hodgson continued to w ork in the city and expanded his practice in West Vancouver by becoming the architect for the school district. designing both Pauline Johnson School (1922) and Inglewood School (1927). He also designed the original St. Stephen's Anglican Church ( 1927), the additions to the original Municipal Hall and a number of private residences including the Harrison Residence at 2587 Kings Avenue (1923). Hugh and G ertrude Hodgson lived in the family home until they died, within three months of each other, in 1965, Beatrice, who never married and had lived with her parent all her life, remained in the house until her death, at age 88, in 2004. The property was then sold to a developer and the house was relocated by barge to Swartz Bay, where it has been painstakingly restored. A modern duplex was erected in its place (2355/2357 Marine Drive). The entire contents of the house was donated to the West Vancouver Museum and Archives and includes, amongst other things, Hodgson's architectural plans, family photographs, albums, letters, postcards and drawings, as well as numerous household artifacts that provide a unique snapshot of life during West Vancouver's early days. L I V I N G R O O M , 1913 ( 0 2 . 0 0 4 .W V A . H O D ) HUGH AND B E A T R IC E S I T T I N G O N T H E S ID E P O R C H , 1913 (0 2 .0 0 4 .W V A .H O D ) HODGSON H O U S E IN W I N T E R . C A . I 9 20 . (0 2 .0 0 5 . W V A . H O D ) LEFT: G E R T R U D E , B E A T R IC E AND HUGH H O D G SO N , CA. 1922. ( 0 1 . 0 0 3 .W V A . H O D ) PAGE 9