Part of the Pine Cove Survey, Plan 136, registered by W. D. Flatt on 6 June 1911. Built in 1910 for Robert Morley Hoose and his wife Lydia Maud Hoose. In Flatt’s Luke Shore Sumeys booklet (1912), the house is shown on p. 16 as “the residence of R.M. Hoose, at Pine Cove”.
The booklet advertises “115 choice building lots” with 50-foot frontages of various depths.
The property was sold in 1920 by the Flatts and the Hooses to Lt. Col. Lionel H. Miller.
This is an outstanding example of a large one-and-a-half-storey Craftsman Style cobblestone or fieldstone bungalow, constructed in 1910 entirely of natural materials. The end-gabled roof extends to become the verandah roof supported by cobblestone pillars. The generously proportioned verandah has entrance steps on both sides. The front elevation below the verandah is now hidden by shrubbery. The door is at the left ; the opening at the centre, by its size, may have been an alternate door location.
The end-gabled roof with exposed raftertails under the eaves is broken by a high pitched gable dormer with plain bargeboard, centre bracket, and two groups of three multi-pained windows. The main gables are clad with cedar shingles; smaller gabled ends of the verandah are stuccoed. A side wing to the west with groups of tall elegantly proportioned windows forms a sun room, with an open second-level verandah. There are two cobblestone chimneys, one on the east elevation, and one at the rear.
