John Boyde House – second wife 1927 – lost depression etc…
Today we head back to South Windsor, and back to Victoria Boulevard, and a look at 3549 Victoria.
This house with the crazy brick work was designed by John Boyde, a partner in the firm of Pennigton & Boyde, as his own personal residence, and as a wedding gift to his second wife in 1927.
With the onset of the depression a few years later, the demand for architectural work dried up, and the Boyde lost the house. The brickwork on this house is unlike any other in the city, and truly shows what Boyde was capable of from a design perspective.
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I have never noticed this house before. I love the brick work!
absolutely beautiful.
i see no normal pattern which leads me to believe that the bricklayer didn t finish his apprentiveship (so much for my spell check)
Hey man….great post and pictures. That house is an amazing design with great craftsmanship. Did Mr. Boyde design any projects across the River?
Patrick, thanks. Boyde did do work across the river, but any Detroit area work was done while he worked at Albert Kahn (1906-1920) where he was chief draftsman. He was involved in both Highland Park and Rouge Ford Plant projects. But I don’t know of any work he did solo in the Detroit area. Any solo work he did in Windsor during that time was for the Catholic Church.
He probably worked on any Kahn residential projects during that time frame.
wow.. that truly is a fantasic piece of architecture.. that brickwork and the cedar shakes make what truthfully is a simply few carefully proportioned and position geometric shapes into a piece of art.
this goes to show that we don’t really need to do much to create something of beauty in architecture.. i really begin to wonder why home builders today think that the more faux columns, stucco patterns and peaked gables they can slap onto a box the better.
I wonder if he had anything to do with the crazy brick house in Victoria Ave in Chatham Ontario. There is one of similar style there today.