A historic residence popularly referred to as the Little Pink Home has been destroyed by hearth after standing within the Township of Langley for nearly 140 years.
The township’s archives say the house correctly referred to as Mclver Home burned down early on Thursday.
It says the house was constructed by Murdoch and Annie McIver between 1887 and 1890.
Whereas the Langley Heritage Society says in a social media publish that the home within the Glen Valley space had fallen into disrepair, its location in the course of a turf farm helped make it “probably the most photographed and painted” houses within the space.
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It says the Gothic-style farmhouse, which additionally served as a backdrop for photograph shoots and movies, “evoked recollections of easier occasions.”
Rob Rindt, a Township of Langley councillor, shared movies of the home being engulfed in flames, saying its destruction was “extremely unhappy.”
“So many individuals photographed, painted and stopped to admire this home through the years, and now these photos seize its closing moments,” he mentioned.
An outline of the home within the Township of Langley’s archives, held by its heritage facility referred to as salishan Place by the River, says the home was constructed by the McIvers to exchange an earlier log cabin, “which was almost certainly too small to accommodate the McIvers’ rising clan of 9 youngsters.”
It says the home was nonetheless occupied till the early Nineties “however by 2010 it had been surrounded by a turf farm and was uninhabited and falling into disrepair.”
The heritage society mentioned in a web based publish Friday that it was “unhappy and unlucky” the house was by no means preserved.
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