308 - 6th Street, Revelstoke. The houses to the left of it at 302 and 304 were probably identical when built in the 1890s or so. I was intrigued by its elaborate, stick-built starburst in the gable, and its closed-in front porch and bootroom--the latter being adaptations to the harsh, snowy climate that you don't see on otherwise identical houses from that era in, say, the Strathcona area in Vancouver. Does anyone know who built them, when and for whom?

Revelstoke is the best of the surviving railway towns in western Canada, a divisional point on the Canadian Pacific Railway at the point where it crosses the Columbia River, with a railway museum worth visiting.

The downtown with the station in the foreground. Both of these postcards were published by John Valentine & Sons about 1910.

Built in Lower Town, quite a ways from the commercial downtown, and now sitting in the middle of a grassy sward surrounded by modest houses, the Revelstoke Court House is a bizarre landmark--one of those railway-era buildings that tell of a time when governments and landowners were feuding over where the town centre ought to be. Designed by Thomas Hooper and built in 1912 by the local construction firm of Foote and Pradolini, it is one of the surviving set of grand provincial public buildings from the time of the Richard McBride administration. The Greenwood Court House, now city hall, is another. Revelstoke Court House survived the recent purge of government services. [Information from the late Ruby Nobbs, Revelstoke's premier historian, collected in the Revelstoke Architectural Heritage Walking Tour brochure]