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Southcott Awards 1997 Alexander and Jennie Templeman House  The Alexander and Jennie Templeman House in Bonavista is a classic two-storey fisherman's cottage, built sometime around or just before 1905, the year Alexander and Jennie were married. The Templeman family has roots in the community well back into the eighteenth century. The Templeman House is built of wood in the predominant vernacular style found in Bonavista, decorated with double peaked-gable dormers in the second storey. It had fallen into disrepair, until its owners Philip Templeman and his wife Elaine arranged for Harvey Templeman and Sharon Miller to supervise a restoration. Rotting clapboard was removed from the house and new boards were installed in a style sympathetic to the original. Inappropriate windows were removed, and new windows in an architecturally-appropriate style were constructed by Jack, Lloyd, and Jason Russell, three generations of a Bonavista woodworking family. Characteristic "two-over-two" windows with heavy drip caps and carved pilasters were installed, as was barge board around the eaves of the Gothic peaked dormers, and a new shingle roof. The old porch at the back of the structure was redesigned to provide more interior space, and was given appropriate windows. In 1996 the Alexander and Jennie Templeman House was designated a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, and a grant was also provided by the Foundation to assist with their restoration. The restoration of the Templeman House celebrates the work of an outport family in their community, the central place which the fishery holds in Newfoundland life, and not incidentally, the importance of the people, the town, and the history of Bonavista, to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador during our Cabot 500th year. |
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