Robert Dewar's House
797 Bank Street
Written by Bytown Museum
on
03/Dec/2009
Built in 1878, the house of Robert Dewar was one of the earliest to be built on the east side of Bank Street. There were over a dozen similar simple houses built in the Glebe between the late-1870s and mid-1880s, most belonging to market gardeners. At the time, market gardeners grew a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers on small plots to be sold at the local market.
By the 1890s, the first shops, including grocery and hardware stores, began to appear along this stretch of Bank Street. The area continues to be the commercial centre of the Glebe.
Did you know that within the area of the present Fifth Avenue Court there was a hall which provided the first accommodation for four Glebe churches, including Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist?
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Neighbourhood
Like the rest of Ottawa, the area that would become known as the Glebe was originally a hunting territory for Anishnabe (Algonquin) tribes, principally the Odawa, whose name is commemorated ... read more
