BC Mills Houses

In 1903, Stanislaus Brereton, the yard foreman at Hastings Mills, erected the houses at 507, 515, and 521 Hawks Avenue. They are the earliest known examples of BC Mills prefabricated houses and were likely demonstration houses. When the street were raised in the 1970s to accommodate water and sewer, the owners of the three BC Mills houses opted to not have their houses lifted. Built like many Strathcona houses on stumps of dirt, the balloon-frame kit house was eventually raised to replace a dirt crawlspace with a proper foundation and basement.

Source

Heritage Vancouver newsletter Nov/Dec 2006