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Enos Flick Residence
5584 8A Avenue
Delta, BC
Built: 1905
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Located near the southwest corner of 56th Street and 8A Avenue is the Flick residence which was built in 1905. More correctly, the original part of the house, which has been significantly added on to, was built by Enos Flick, a transplanted Pennsylvanian Dutchman. The occurrence was reported in The Delta Times: "E. Flick has purchased a 40-acre block on the Point Roberts Road, and has built a nice cottage and cleared about half an acre for this season's work. He is making a chicken ranch out of his property."
Status: Still Standing
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After Enos Flick's retirement to Point Roberts, the house was lived in by a number of unknown families who were renters, until Robert Genge and his family took up residence in the early 1920s. Genge, born in Leeds, England, and had been orphaned very young, had immigrated to Canada as a part of the Home Children program. He and his wife, Catherine, known to her friends as "Kitty," took possession of this property around 1921. They had two children - Mary Ellen and Roy. Mary Ellen, we know, remained in Tsawwassen, making her home in her grandmother Hearl's house to the north on 56th St and 12th Avenue where the White Spot now stands.
Genge was an ardent gardener and florist, and was especially interested in floral and fruit arranging. Like many other farmers in South Delta, he sold a variety of products off his farm, including fence posts and potatoes., to make some money.
it is known that he had served as a gunner in the "C" (Special Service) Battery, Royal Canadian Field Artillery during the South African War (known then as the (Boer War). He was awarded the Queen's Medal with four clasps, but the circumstances are unknown.
No one has yet to date supported the story, spread by a malicious neighbour, that the Genges had raised chickens in the attic of their house. It is said that anyone who knew Kitty Genge couldn't possibly have believed such as tale.
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Flick Residence include its:
location, set very close to the original eastern boundary of the property on 56th Street, across the street from the Boundary Bay Cemetery
modest vernacular cottage form, scale and massing as expressed by its one and one-half storey height, regular, rectangular plan and later additions
cross-gabled roof with slightly flared eaves and internal red-brick chimney
wood-frame construction with horizontal wooden drop siding with cornerboards
variety of window types including: double-hung 1-over-1 and 2-over-2 wooden sash windows in double assembly, some with segmental arched upper sashes; and upper storey, multi-paned wooden sash casement windows
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