252 Metcalfe — Booth House in the Snow

 John Rudolphus Booth, rail and lumber king, built this, his downtown home between 1906 and 1909. Booth House is, if you will,  a balls-out example of Queen Anne Revival. The Canadian Register describes architect John W.H. Watts' design as an...

"asymmetrical massing, set under a lively roofline with intersecting ridges, shaped gables, dormers and a tall, ribbed chimney stack... [and with] projecting features including the square tower, bay windows, porches, wings, sunrooms and verandahs." 

 Lively roofline, meet tall, ribbed chimney stack. Red brick construction, Venetian window treatments and the house's placement on a corner lot also garner the CR's mention.

 See Wikipedia on Booth,  and a 2011 Ottawa Citizen article which mentions damage to the house sustained during the June 2010 earthquake.

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Portrait of J.R. Booth, artist and date unknown

 "The importance of John Rudolphus Booth to Ottawa cannot be overstated. While the likes of Philemon Wright, E.B. Eddy, W.G. Perley, Erskine Bronson and John Egan were known as lumber barons, Booth was king..."

 Bruce Deachman has written an appreciation of J.R. Booth for the Ottawa Citizen on the occasion of the donation of the above portrait to the Bytown Museum — a gift of the Domtar Corporation. The painting will go on public display on February 3 of the coming year.