Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Echo Drive at Mason Terrace

GeoOttawa lists this address as 619 Echo Drive and indicates (aerial photography) construction some time after 1928 but before '58. I'd stop just short of describing the neighbourhood as "posh", but it does boast many uniquely designed, well-maintained houses on nicely treed lots.

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.