Someone123 - when you first posted the Halifax style of bay/dormer windows, I'd never seen them before. I looked around to see if we had any examples, and there aren't any.
But I found one - and since that style is not present here, I did a little research. Sure enough, the architect was Scottish.
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Richmond Hill Cottage has historic value because of its associations with the Honorable Kenneth McLea, and Gilbert Browning. McLea was a St. John’s merchant who purchased the land near the Crossroads in Riverhead in 1848. McLea was a candidate for St. John’s West in the election of 1861, and his candidature resulted in an election riot in which three people were shot to death on Water Street. He died a year later. Subsequently his business went bankrupt and the family sold the property.
Gilbert Browning was a Scottish builder-architect who came to Newfoundland following the Great Fire of 1846 in which a large portion of St. John’s was burnt. Browning arrived amongst a large number of men who were engaged in the building trades in England and who came to help with rebuilding the town. He was hired by McLea to design and build Richmond Hill. Thirty years after Browning built the house, he purchased it as his family residence. He became a prominent businessman in his own right. His most successful venture was a biscuit factory near the Crossroads, which afterwards was carried on under the name of Browning-Harvey. This company is still in operation today.
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Browning-Harvey makes the local Pepsi products, including Pineapple Crush. They also do all sorts of "Pepsi: Your LOCAL soft drink", etc., advertising. And, since Coca Cola shuttered their facilities here... well, you know what we're like. I believe Newfoundland is one of only a handful of places in the world where Pepsi is more popular than Coke. Someone mentioned recently that was down to just us and Russia, but I have no idea.
And regarding the riot - completely normal then. It was a rough period. 1855 was our independence - a sudden transfer of power from the ruling English Anglican elite to the majority Irish Catholic population. Some neighbouring villages literally went to war against each other, there's no other term for it, and riots were everywhere, all the time. The early 1860s were the worst of all. Masked gangs even beat people trying to vote in some predominantly Catholic towns in majority Anglican areas - and the town of Harbour Grace was forbidden from voting in a national election at that time by the government.
Anyhow, as far as I can tell, it is the only example of bay/dormer windows in that style here:
http://historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/...u.aspx?id=2719