Description
The Lambert and Johanna Greene House is a two storey house built on a gable-ell plan. Built in the 1920s, it is located close to the harbour in Tilting, NL. The designation includes the house and four associated outbuildings, which include a cellar and three buildings used for storage.
Statement of Significance
Formal Recognition Type
Registered Heritage Structure
Heritage Value
The Lambert and Johanna Greene House and associated outbuildings were designated a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2003 because of their aesthetic and historic value.
The Lambert and Johanna Greene House has aesthetic value as it is an excellent example of the adaptation of new styles to meet traditional preferences. It combines a traditional hall and parlour plan with a front facing gable addition, resulting in a gable-ell layout. This evolution in house style can be seen in other homes in the community and the greater region. The associated outbuildings add to the aesthetic value of the property. There are fewer examples of outport homes with the majority of their older outbuildings still remaining. Such buildings were designed for practical use, employing rough materials, simple design elements and utilitarian construction techniques.
The Lambert and Johanna Greene House has historic value as a physical example of way of life that saw people make great use of the resources available to them. It has been recorded that Lambert Greene built this house following a storm that destroyed his fishing premises on Greene’s Point, where the family also had their home. It is quite possible that this was the storm of June 1923 – which destroyed much fishing infrastructure along the east and northeast coasts of the island of Newfoundland. Lambert dismantled his house on Greene’s Point, bought another owned by Tom Greene, and moved the pieces of his first house and the bought house to Mathias’ Point, on the other side of the harbour. The family lived in the house that Lambert bought and moved while he built the new house, large sections of which were recycled from pieces of his house that had been on Greene’s Point. His son Martin remembered the family living in the moved or “launched” house for a few years while the new house was being built. Following Lambert and Johanna’s deaths in the 1950s, their son Martin lived in the house until 1993.
The outbuildings are historically important as they are physical reminders of a way of life intrinsically linked to the land and sea. The stable was moved from Greene’s Point around the same time as the house was built. The cellar and stable each served a vital purpose in a subsistence economy which demanded that food be stored for both animal and human consumption. Other outbuildings aided in the prosecution of the fishery and subsistence agriculture by providing storage and working spaces.
Source: Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador property file “Tilting – Lambert and Johanna Greene House and Outbuildings – FPT 1851”
Character Defining Elements
Those pertaining to the residence including:
-gable-ell plan;
-number of storeys;
-mid pitch roof;
-wooden roofing shingles;
-return on eaves;
-decorative wooden brackets on below eaves;
-narrow wooden clapboard;
-wooden corner boards;
-entrance on left end of front facade;
-location of porch on rear facade;
-size, style, trim and placement of exterior wooden doors;
-wooden window size, style, trim and placement;
-eared decoration and raincaps on windows and doors;
-chimney style and placement;
-stone and wood post foundation;
-white paint on front and side facades, red ochre on rear;
-dimension, location and orientation of building.
Those pertaining to the outbuildings including:
-original form, scale and massing of outbuildings;
-wooden post building supports;
-narrow wooden clapboard;
-wooden corner boards;
-wooden window size, style, trim and placement;
-size, style, trim and placement of exterior wooden doors;
-red ochre exterior colour with white trim;
-location and orientation of outbuildings in relation to the house and to one another.
Location and History
Community
Tilting
Municipality
Town of Fogo Island
Civic Address
Main Street
Construction (circa)
1923 - 1923
Builder
Lambert Greene
Style
L - Shape
Location
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