Chicken coops and double-decker buses - amazing history at Granville and Wellington

This month's Kitchissippi Times features my Early Days column about the house at 1350 Wellington Street West, now occupied by Architects DCA. It's a fantastic old brick house built in the 1920s when Wellington still had as many houses as it did businesses. The family that had the house built occupied it for over 60 years, and it now stands with a couple of "claims to fame" that are pretty unique, and pretty cool.

Check out the link below to read more about the house and the Showler family. The story itself is pretty cool, but the photos are even better. A owe a big amount of thanks to Jane Showler Doyle, who shared with me a few stories and all the great photographs.

So much history and character in Wellington Village!

https://kitchissippi.com/2019/04/09/showler-family-ottawa-wellington-west/

Arthur F. Showler by the earliest backyard
coops, posing with his fish catch! Circa 1930.
(Courtesy of Jane Showler Doyle)