William H. Parliament House

When the current owners of Parliament House move to the Lower Mainland, they were looking for a heritage home that could benefit from their previous experience in Philadelphia, where they partially restored an 1890 home. The found it at 128 Seventh Avenue. This residence had suffered many of the indignities common to heritage homes: aluminum windows, exterior stucco and asphalt shingles; missing period light fixtures; and poorly conceived improvements. Subsequent renovations/corrections included a well-considered exterior renovation that drew on the owners' heritage homes acumen and two well-thumbed copies of the 1910 and 1913 Sears roebuck house plans catalogue.