Two pieces of excellent news:
We have learned that the house has been purchased by a buyer who intends to preserve the house as a live-work place. Let's hope this works out!
This spring the Jackson (Cowsill) house was added to the Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources as a Community Heritage Resource. This does not confer much protection, but it does put it on the City radar and would likely not have happened without the profile of the house being raised by CHI and Billy Cowsill fans...
Here is a brief summary from the heritage evaluation:
Evaluation of the Jackson (Cowsill) Residence
1723 9 Street SW (1911)
Evaluated as a Community Historic Resource (CHR)
The Jackson House, built in 1911, is one of the original residences in Calgary’s Lower Mount Royal district. It is a two and one-half storey, foursquare-plan house detailed in the American Colonial-revival style. The wood-frame, red-brick veneer house features a paneled front verandah, balconies, and Palladian dormer windows. The first resident, Frank Jackson, was a construction contractor and lived, with his family in this house until 1930. One of the more recent residents was internationally-renowned musician Billy Cowsill (Hair, 1969) who was a prominent figure in the local root-music scene until his death in the house February 2006.
Source: Calgary Heritage Authority, Evaluation & Review Committee Minutes, March 26, 2009
Attachment to the main CHA minutes, linked below:
http://www.calgary.ca/DocGallery/bu/pla ... es_apr.pdf