This home was built for Andrew MacKinlay who was born in 1858 and married Margaret Elizabeth Harris of Aylesford. Although the Dumaresq firm had apparently drawn plans in 1902, the residence was not constructed until the fall of 1908. Andrew J. MacKinlay is listed as living there in the 1908-09 City Directory.

 

Andrew worked for A. & W. MacKinlay, Ltd., stationers, publishers, and blank book manufacturers at on Granville Street with his brother Charles H. MacKinlay. It was started by his grandfather, Andrew K. MacKinlay of Stirlingshire, Scotland and his grandfather's brother, William about 1826. He was the third generation male to be named Andrew MacKinlay. Andrew died in 1938.

 

This was one of many homes on Young Avenue designed by J.C. Dumaresq.This large house of two-and-a-half stories has a large wrap-around verandah on two sides, with both paired and tripled Tuscan columns supporting an upper deck featuring drop railings on the right side of the entrance. A Palladian window is prominently featured on the second level deck. Originally, there was another south facing Palladian window on the attic floor, but was removed at some point. The asymmetrical layout has a two-storey bay on the left side of the entrance.

 

There is a steeply pitched gable roof with large overhang containing two front facing dormers; each consisting of double-hung paired windows. The northern side of the mansion features an oriel window which is a form of bay window that projects from the main wall of the home held by a supporting structure. This oriel lights up the interior main staircase. The front entrance has a massive plate glass front door with sidelights and topped with a transom window. The original blueprints featured a balcony on the front facing left-hand attic floor window, but either it was never built or was removed. The home has been renovated inside and out.

The ground floor consisted of front entrance hall, parlour, library, dining room, pantry, a room with sink (which was probably the scullery), kitchen, main stairway and servants' stairs. The first floor (in modern terms second floor) had four bedrooms, bathroom and dressing room as well as main family stairway and servants' stairs. The attic consisted of two servants' rooms, bath, linen closet, servants' stairs, and attic area. The basement had two rooms for hard and soft coal, a large main area not labelled, a small area not labelled but possibly cold storage or larder, and another room with sinks which was probably for laundry.