This part of Old Ottawa East, especially the area across the Rideau Canal from Lansdowne Park, has seen several houses original to their sites lately replaced by grander statements — 621 Echo next door being just one example.
#619 occupies the center of this 2015[?] aerial view. The two-storey wooden structure was attractively sheathed in some sort of white stucco. Note how the garage faced onto Mason Terrace. A strange vestibule-like structure reached halfway across the front yard toward the sidewalk. A ground-floor sun-room on the northwest side of the house caused the frontal asymmetry visible in the upper photo.
I question the date of geoOttawa's aerial view because it looks like spring to me, but a Google Street View from September of 2015 shows the twin-trunked front yard maple tree in the process of removal. Here it is already gone. Whatever. It's still gone.
