The Cookson House is an attractive north-facing one and one-half storey Arts and Crafts cottage, with a well-landscaped yard. There is a double garage with a room above it, architecturally sympathetic in style and massing to the main house.
Traditional architectural styles were popular during the interwar period, and it was considered good taste for a house to be designed with identifiable stylistic elements. Elements of the Arts and Crafts style exhibited in this residence include its steeply pitched cross-gabled roof, stucco and wood half-timbering and multi-paned windows. This house was designed and built by prominent local designer and contractor Robert Rowley (1862-1939).
Additionally, the Cookson House is significant as a demonstration of the economic activity and wealth of Kelowna between the 1920s and 1930s when fruit production became the driving economic engine of the area. The house was built in 1929 for Albert Edward Cookson (1905-1981), an employee and later the secretary-treasurer of Rowcliffe Canning.
- Framed: 16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
- Subject Matter: Cityscape
- Collections: Gifted, Donated , Heritage Homes