The Metcalfe Society

Metcalfe St, Maesteg, Wales UK

A terrace of about 47 houses built c.1848 by the Llynvi Iron Company for its colliers and iron miners. Named after William Metcalfe (Mitcalfe) the major shareholder in the iron company. Mitcalfe was born in Tynemouth in 1887 and became a wealthy London coal factor before investing heavily in the iron company in about 1843. He died in Bristol in 1863.
[Submitted by David Lewis, Swansea, Wales, UK]

Port Metcalfe, Wolfe Island, Canada [View Source]

1878 Atlas Map.
[Suggested by Ruth Carr]

Metcalfe House, Bakersfield, USA
Article appearing on Kern County Museum Site [View Full Article]

"The Metcalf House is built in the Eastlake style. The Queen Anne style, of which the Howell House is an example, borrowed many of the same features, yet the differences in the standard of living between the Metcalfs and the Howells are apparent in the construction..."
The article also includes a history of the Metcalfes who lived there.
[Suggested by Susan Harper, #266]

Metcalfe House, Storm Lake, Iowa, USA [View Full Article]

"The original owner of the house was Louis J.(L.J.) Metcalf. Metcalf built the house between 1885 and 1909. He bought the lot where the house now stands for $171.00. L.J. was widowed in 1888. Metcalf's descendants who have visited the house report that he built the home on Geneseo Street some time after he married his second wife in 1890..."
[Suggested by Susan Harper, #266]

A brief history of the buildings now owned by Newcastle Arts Centre. (View Source)

University Chambers 67 Westgate Road

Although only known as "University Chambers" during the first half of the twentieth century, 67 Westgate Road, the oldest building within the Arts Centre complex, was for over 400 years owned by University College Oxford, during which time it was leased to various people. It is very likely that the land itself was part of a number of deeds presented to the University in 1447 by Alice Bellasis, the daughter of Sir Robert Hansard,..."in consideration of masses to be said... for her soul after her death and for the souls of her kinfolk."

Before being occupied by the most famous of its residents, the Ridley Family, the land, on which at the time stood two houses, was leased in 1693 by William Metcalfe. A member of the Company of Hostmen, which under a charter granted by Elizabeth the First held a virtual monopoly over the coal industry of the area, he was made a Freeman of Newcastle on the 20th May 1698, the same day on which Matthew White, the future father-in-law of Sir Matthew White Ridley, also became a Freeman of the town. It was William Metcalfe who almost certainly converted the original two houses into a single property, forming the basis for the building as it stands today. The current house is in a style that dates it to about 1725.

Plaque located at Alwington Place, Kingston, Ontario, Canada [View Source]

GOVERNMENT HOUSE
Alwington House, which stood on this site, was completed in 1832 by Charles W. Grant, fifth baron of Longueuil. It was enlarged in 1841 to serve as the vice-regal residence during the period when Kingston was the capital of the united Province of Canada. Three governors general, Lord Sydenham, Sir Charles Bagot, and Charles Metcalfe, occupied the house. When the capital was removed to Montreal in 1844, Alwington was returned to Baron Longueuil. It was subsequently occupied by the Reverend J. A. Allen, author of scientific works and father of the Canadian novelist Grant Allen. Badly damaged by fire in 1958, it was demolished the following year.

The Metcalfe House: A Building in the 'Early Colonial' Style by McKim, Mead and White

A brilliant center," wrote Frances Wolcott, nee Metcalfe, of the "life my mother presided over . . . in the first house in Buffalo planned and erected by McKim, Mead and White" (1). Until last February, that building, which was commissioned in 1882 by Frzelia Stetson Metcalfe and her son James, stood at 125 North Street (Figure 1). The structure has now [in 1980] been demolished to make way for a parking lot to serve the adjacent building, the former George L. Williams residence, also designed by McKim, Mead and White which is to be remodeled into offices for Delaware North Companies, Inc.