Thirty-five Kingsway Crescent was built in 1929 for Richard and Elsie Pearce by Home Smith & Co and designed by their architect Robert. S. Hanks.

The two-and-a-half story home was designed as an “Old English Manor” with Tudor Revival style elements. The first floor exterior and chimney stack are clad in rough-hewn river stone while the second floor is half-timbering with stucco cladding with small paned wood casement windows. The charm of the home is enhanced by its steeply pitched roof, the post and beam second floor gables and overhang jetties.

Richard Pearce was born in Toronto in 1892 and later became a reporter for The Toronto Star. In 1914, his editor asked him to move to Cobalt, Ontario to cover the booming mining scene. He left the Star and bought a controlling interest in The Northern Miner in 1916, a local Cobalt paper that had just been launched to cover the mining industry. Due to the paper’s rapid growth and success, the offices and printing plant of the Northern Miner were moved to Toronto in 1929. Richard, as Editor and President, was later joined by his brother Norman in 1924 and together they grew The Northern Miner to be the primary source of news on Canada's mining industry. Today it is still globally regarded as the authority on Canadian mining. Richard and Norman were inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 1991.