Update Sept. 3, 2011: While the City’s Built Heritage Advisory Committee did not recommend that 9 Rosedale Avenue be designated heritage at its Sept. 1 meeting, it “is recommending that city staff look into how an area that includes a strip of land near the canal between the Bank Street Bridge and Bronson Avenue could receive heritage protection”, according to a story in the Ottawa Citizen. See our original story below.

9 Rosedale Avenue Heritage Evaluation

Local neighbours of the recently sold property at 9 Rosedale Avenue have been investigating the potential for heritage designation of this property. The following heritage survey and evaluation has been provided the City of Ottawa. These forms are used to evaluate and score the cultural heritage of properties.

Nine Rosedale was built in 1930 for W. Frank Jones, general manager of the Ottawa Dairy. Its design is a bungalow type that shows the influence of the Arts and Craft style.  The evaluation process assigns a score out of three in each of Design, History and Context and a minimum of 6/9 is required for designation to proceed. Nine Rosedale Avenue received 5.5/9.

Anyone with any additional information or comments on the property is invited to contact the heritage planning staff at City of Ottawa to provide an update to this record.

HERITAGE SURVEY AND EVALUATION FORM
Address	9 Rosedale Avenue				Building name
Construction date	1930				Original owner			W. Frank Jones
PHASE ONE EVALUATION
Potential significance		Considerable		Some			Limited		None
Design				2
History							1.5
Context				2
Phase One Score		5.5 / 9
Phase Two Classification		1	2			3				4

Historical and Associative Value	prepared by Sally Coutts
	month/year
Date of construction (factual/estimated)	1930
Themes/Events/Persons/Institutions
Mr. W. Frank Jones, Manager of the Ottawa Dairy, built the house circa 1930. Jones arrived in Canada from Great Britain in 1910 and attended the Ontario School of Agriculture after serving in the First World War. He graduated in the early 1920s and moved to Ottawa to work for the Department of Agriculture in dairy manufacturing. In 1928 he left the government to work for the Chateau Cheese Company, eventually becoming the General Manager of the Ottawa Dairy Company in 1929. At the time of his appointment he lived on Second Avenue, so it is assumed that he moved to 9 Rosedale shortly after becoming the General Manager. Jones went on to hold a number of positions in organizations related to the dairy industry in Canada, including president of the National Dairy Council.     The house was subsequently occupied by a number of families and it operated as a Bed and Breakfast from 1990 until 2010.
Community History
Old Ottawa South developed slowly in the 19th century, with only a few houses constructed. In 1891 the streetcar on Bank Street reached Lansdowne Park, prompting some development at the north end of the neighbourhood. In 1907, the community was annexed to the City of Ottawa and in 1913 the streetcar service was extended south across the canal, prompting significant development in the area.   Nine Rosedale is located at the north end of the street, and is the last house before Colonel By Drive, a National Capital Commission driveway. It was pieced together from early settlement roads that ran beside the Canal. In 1920 the Ottawa Improvement Commission (precursor of the NCC) obtained a License of Occupation for the south bank of the canal between Bronson Avenue and Bank Street. The OIC then cleared the debris from the banks of the Canal, repaired the canal wall, and laid out walkways and flowerbeds beside the road. By 1930 the Driveway was complete from Bronson Avenue to the Pretoria Bridge. The emergence of the Driveway as an urban amenity prompted the development of attractive houses for the middle classes along its length. Nine Rosedale is one such house.
Designer/Architect
Not known
Summary
Nine Rosedale Avenue reflects the growth of Ottawa South as a neighbourhood in the early decades of the 20th century. This growth was prompted by the arrival of the streetcar and the improvement of the banks of the canal by the Ottawa Improvement Commission. The life and career in the dairy industry of Frank Jones, the original owner, illustrates the emergence of Ottawa South as the home of successful businessmen and public servants.
Sources
Landon French, “Cultural Landscapes Project, The Parkway System: Historical Study (NCC, 1995)   Old Ottawa South History Project Ottawa Citizen, various years

Interiors

Contextual Value	prepared by Sally Coutts
	month/year May 2011
Community Character
Nine Rosedale Avenue is located in the Ottawa South neighbourhood, an established neighbourhood south of the downtown core. It is characterized by a mixture of housing types with a concentration of larger houses along the edge of Colonel By. North of Aylmer, Rosedale is characterized by predominantly three storey houses with Tudor details of a type found throughout the neighbourhood. As a one and a half storey structure, this building is an unlike its neighbours on Rosedale Avenue, but it similar in scale and massing to its westerly neighbours. The presence of the Rideau Canal and its adjacent parkland prompted a demand for middle class housing.   .
Context/Links to Surroundings
The building is located near the corner of Rosedale Avenue and Colonel By Drive, an NCC parkway. It is bounded by NCC parkland to the north, creating an attractive setting.
Landmark
The building has moderate landmark status, as the last house on a street abutting the Colonel By Drive, however, there is a large oak on the property that is well-known in the area.
Summary
Nine Rosedale is the first house on Rosedale, a north-south street that meets Colonel By Drive and is adjacent to the Rideau Canal and its pathway system. It reflects the development of the community and the concentration of larger, more elegant houses at the north end of the neighbourhood, near the in the Rideau Canal.

Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act gives municipalities the authority to designate individual properties with design, historical or contextual value. A property may have design value if it is an example of a particular style or building type; it may have historical value if it is associated with a theme, event, person or institution significant to the community’s history or was designed by a significant designer; and it may have contextual value if is a landmark, contributes to the community’s character. Designation protects buildings from demolition and unsympathetic alterations.

Information on heritage designation is available on the City of Ottawa website.  In addition, the Province of Ontario has prepared a heritage toolkit which explains how the heritage conservation process works and how to research historic buildings.