Thank you all for your very nice comments on yesterday's pic of Melody and I greatly appreciated. On my day off we decided to take a historic tour of one of the neighbourhoods in our city.
One of the stops was at the Jack McNeil House. Jack McNeil arrived in Edmonton in 1910. He would eventually start the cities first taxi company, Twin City Taxi.
One of the features on this house is the second story balcony known as a widow walk. Something you see in homes found on the east coast but a rare sight here in Edmonton
Wow, I haven't seen a widow's walk since we were back East. You're right. Never seen out here. They are just "balconies", nothing else. Interesting looking old home.
A very narrow house, beautiful with the window walk. when I first came to Canada, my husband lived in a house similar to this one. we called it the "Small towel"
@mothermalarky Spending summers in the Canadian Maritimes and overlooking the harbour, many of the Lunenburg houses have Widow's Walks at the very peak of the houses, as, atop the attic. Our house has a "bump" in the attic with windows on 3 sides so as to better view the harbour. The Sailors' Memorial down by the docks attests to the numbers of those lost at sea...a sad history. Your photo of this house is a lovely one, but, unless there's a view to the water, I wonder if it actually was a widow's walk and not just an early upstairs porch.
Interesting building.We don,t see anything like that here.Why is it called a widows walk? Is it because the women push their husbands off the balcony !!??
Yes, a widow's walk seems a little out of place as it was generally built for the wives of sea captains- who often did not return home when caught out on the ocean in a fierce storm, hence the name.
@365projectorgchristinewebb Christine the name comes from seafaring communities where women would walk out on this section of the house to watch for their husbands ship to return. Of course when it didn't they knew their husband had been list at sea thus making them a widow
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