22M 3.5 K ”[1 'EE

No. 12 Brighton Road (below) provides yet another example of a handsome Harris house turned into apartments that has lost some part of its architectural character by reason of unsympathetic modification. The house was built in 1896 by Sherriif Ewen MacDougall, and it boasted an open balcony, an umbrage at the front door, and a couple of shed roofs as labels over windows. Some years ago the house was

.... ~ ~ ~ , damaged by fire; an abusive husband set it on fire in order to harm his wife, who lived in one of the apartments. The roof was destroyed and had to be replaced; unfortunately, it was rebuilt without the snub gables.

Down at the far end of Brighton Road, on a site overlooking Charlottetown harbour and the North River, Frederick W Hyndman in 1877 built a house known variously as Watermere or Wndermere (below) Contemporary with Beaconsfield, Westboume, and the Clergy House, it shares no similarity of features with any of these, or with Harris’s later buildings. The 23 year old architect had yet to develop his own distinctive style. The house is Harris’s only essay in a familiar Island type, the L-shaped farmhouse. When the house was under construction a passerby remarked to Harris that it looked "odd"; he replied, ”Have you ever seen an eg that looked like a chicken." At the time it was built, Watermere was outside town. Mrs. Hyndman didn't like the isolation and persuaded her husband to move back into town. ' Their son, Eardley, grew up and married Winnified Cotton, the daughter of William and Robert Harris’s sister, Margaret Ellin (or Maggie, as she was called). F. W. Hyndman was founder of the Charlottetown insumfice firm, Hyndman & Company.