STREET ADDRESS: 22 Forest Street
CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE:Yarmouth
MUNICIPALITY:Yarmouth
COUNTY:Yarmouth
YEAR BUILT: 1903
ARCHITECTURAL COMMENT:
2 storey Shingle style with Queen Anne Revival influences. The medium pitched roof has a flat center section, four interlocked gambrels which are cantilevered out over the first storey, a front facing, hip roofed dormer with wide eaves overhang supported by molded brackets, and an off-center double chimney. The steeply pitched second storey walls have pedimented gabled dormers on east and west sides. Facade is asymmetrical with a two storey, five sided bay window topped by the hip roofed dormer; the off-center entrance is in the 1 storey wraparound fieldstone veranda which has a corner turret and roof supported by paired Tuscan columns. Windows have double hung sashes with 1/1 glazing in first storey and diamond pattern glazing in top sashes of second and attic storey windows; a half round window with patterned glazing adorns the front facing gambrel. Constructed of wood with molded window casings, deep crowns over gambrel end windows, molded trim on gambrel verges and clapboard cladding.
HISTORICAL COMMENT:
Built for the first manager of the Bank of Montreal, Thomas Van Buskirk Bingay, on land he owned. He had been an accountant, and then head cashier for the Exchange Bank of Yarmouth, which was sold to the Bank of Montreal in 1903. Ten days after moving into his fine, new home, Mr. Bingay sold it to his employer. The Bank of Montreal retained ownership of the property as a residence for its managers until 1975 when it was sold to the wife of the then current manager, Bruce Wentzell. Its connections to the Bank were severed when the Wentzells sold the property in 1984.
CONTEXTUAL COMMENT:
North side of Forest Street, second house east of Main Street.No obvious changes have been made to the house, well maintained property. Unique to area.
PRESENT OWNER:Joan Thibault
ADDRESS:22 Forest Street, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, B5A 3K9
ORIGINAL OWNER:Thomas Van Buskirk Bingay
OCCUPATION: Bank Manager
BUILDER: Unknown
ORIGINAL USE: Single family dwelling
PRESENT USE: Single family dwelling
| HISTORY OF BUILDING | ||||
| OWNER | FROM: | TO: | OCCUPATION | BOOK PG |
| Thomas Van Buskirk Bingay | Dec. 3, 1901 |
Jan. 25, 1904 |
Bank Manager | CK 635 |
| Bank of Montreal | Jan. 25, 1904 |
Nov. 26, 1975 | Bank | CT 852 |
| Glenda A. Wentzel | Nov. 26, 1975 | Feb. 2, 1978 | Married woman | KA 435 |
| Bruce/Glenda Wentzell | Feb. 2, 1978 |
June 29, 1984 | Bank Manager | LG 427 |
| Kenneth/Dorothy Black | June 29, 1984 | June 9, 1992 | Engineer | OK 514 |
| Joan Thibault | June 9, 1992 |
Present | Retired | 499 647 |
COMMENTS ON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Yarmouth Light, Thursday, June 25, 1903: "A charge of dynamite set off Friday afternoon by workmen in Mr. T.V. B. Bingay's new cellar on Forest street landed a stone through the roof of Mr. John S. Baker's house on Willow street." (Note - this was a distance of about three blocks!) Yarmouth Telegram, Friday, January 15, 1904: "Mr. T.V. B. Bingay is moving into his handsome new house on Forest street today."
SOURCES:Registry of Deeds; McAlpine's N.S. Directory, 1907-08; Town Assessment Roll, 1915; Yarmouth Directory, 1949; Yarmouth Souvenir books, 1911, 1918; Yarmouth Light, June 25, 1903; Yarmouth Telegram, January 15, 1904.