The Spencer Mansion
Taylor, Robert Ratcliffe, PhD![The Spencer Mansion](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/131/13183893/CHSBZCOP0313183893.jpg)
Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author Robert Ratcliffe Taylor describes the original appearance of the house, designed by William Ridgway Wilson for Alexander Green and his family, as well as its inhabitants over the decades. Also known as Gyppeswyk, after the village in England where Green we...