This home at 52 Woodstock Street South boasts a Heritage Designation. The description prepared in 1991 supporting the designation reads:
The neo-classical style of the building at 52 Woodstock Street in Tavistock has existed since 1892 when Dr. Otto Niemeier bricked over two adjoining structures to create the building as it currently exists. Before being bricked, one structure, being the main portion of the house, was of frame construction with clapboard siding (German c. 1855). The adjoining structure to the east was a board and baton 1 1/2 storey building (English c. 1870).
The designation includes the entire exterior of the building covered in red brick, the italianate gables and brackets, stained glass windows, the exterior windows with wooden frames and sills and the wooden panel storm windows, the rounded doorway entrance to the southwest, the slate roof and the gothic porch with tin roof.
As well as being architecturally significant, this structure is one of the oldest remaining structures in Tavistock. It was the location of Tavistock’s first general merchant and several other merchants before being bought and reconstructed by Dr. Niemeier. After Dr. Niemeier, the house was owned by other prominent Tavistock doctors as well as a veterinarian before being sold to the Corp family which owned it until 1986.
Other photos of the property are LSC 0088, 0100, 0380, 1548, 1597 and 0448.