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• 1 media/Figure 1 146 Bayswater.JPG 2025-07-28T16:41:37+00:00 The Building 10 Information of the building of 146 Bayswater can be found here plain 146 2025-08-05T18:10:35+00:00 146 Bayswater Avenue stands right on the intersection of Bayswater and Gladstone Avenue. It is a brick veneer residential building, standing two and a half stories high. The house was built in 1886 by David Cuthbertson, a well-known contractor-builder in the early years of Ottawa.
  
  The building has been divided into multiple apartments since at least 1927, and at least two of these apartments were rented throughout the years. Currently, there are three apartments in the building, the top floor being a small one bedroom and one bathroom apartment.
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  It was initially owned by David Cuthbertson; but when he left in the years between 1900 and 1904, it was inhabited by James Oliver who owned the integral Oliver & Sons furniture factory a few blocks away. One of the building's most prominent residents was James Oliver’s son, Herbert James Oliver. He later went on to become a member of the Public School Board and even to serve as Chairman in 1926.
  
  The shape of the building remained the same for decades, possibly since its initial construction. Fire Insurance plans from 1948 and 1956 show the same footprint as the building has today. The difference is the garage: while there certainly was garage attached to the house since 1948, this seems to have been added after 1886 because initially there was a barn on the same lot. 
  
  The barn is noted in an Ottawa Journal article, where it is mentioned that it burnt down. It is also possible that when the building burnt down during the Great Fire of 1900, David Cuthbertson (its owner at the time) decided to change its architectural footprint or its materials.