A.C. Gardner Cobblestone House
Description
The A.C. Gardner Cobblestone House is a 1½ -storey house constructed in 1922 in the Craftsman style. Alfred Charles Gardner was a local painter, paper hanger, and decorator who offered his services through the Leggett Hardware store. Gardner was also a town councillor and a member of St. George’s Lodge. When Gardner’s house was erected it was the second cobblestone house in Kingsville. The exterior walls are smaller cobblestones, many of them likely retrieved from Kingsville’s beaches. Decorative stones were clearly hand selected for shape and colour, and include Lake Erie coral and pudding stone.
Key heritage attributes include:
Stone construction combining fieldstone and beach stone with brick masonry around windows
Gable roof, hipped dormer
Heavily-angled stone piers
Full-width porch
Outside end chimney
Flattened arch on main floor and basement windows
Quarter-sawn oak woodwork
Wood paneled doors