Ottawa Edwardian Classicism was popular in housing in Ontario well into the 1930s. This house on Monkland St. in Ottawa is an example of concentrated Classical elements applied to a basically rectangular brick building. The front portico is an extended barrel vault held in place by modified Doric columns, a plain architrave and an exaggerated cornice with heavy dentil blocks. The barrel vault on the front takes the shape of a Florentine pediment, the lower cornice of which is broken in the Bar
