This year's Heritage Citation Award commemorates a home that's heard many a pitter patter of little feet.
The home of Northern Hardware founder Alex Moffat is the winner of the 2011 Heritage Citation Award from the City's Heritage Commission.
A plaque, acknowledging the home's significance, will be presented to the current owners on Saturday at Exploration Place at 12:15 p.m.
Located at 153 Moffat Street, the two-storey log structure was built in 1914-15 in an area that was once outside the city limits and surrounded by bush, according to researcher Valerie Giles.
John Munro's family originally owned the home during the years he was the bank officer at the Bank of Montreal.
"Munro came to Prince George along with J. Anderson in 1910 travelling up from Ashcroft on narrow trails with L.G. McHaffie, who became their first bank manager," Giles.
When Munro purchased the home, he moved in with his wife Winifred, his son Duncan and daughter Josephine.
In 1923, Northern Hardware founder Alexander Bohannon Moffat bought the house for his new bride, Florence (Floss) Harwood, and the children from his first marriage, son Harold and adopted daughter Alice.
Their first child, Keith, was born in the house on May 25, 1924 and altogether, Florence bore six sons and two daughters.
"Theirs was a large, lively family. Household help was engaged as needed and a Chinese cook was hired. He lived in a cabin on the property," Giles said.
Harold went on to become mayor from 1969 and served until 1978. Moffat lived in the home until his death on January 24, 1963 at the age of 72.
Distinctive features of the home are a large verandah and eleven attractive diamond-shaped mullions on the windows facing front on the second floor. Inside, the living room has what was then the largest fireplace in the city.
"It was kept stoked with birch and pine wood - readily available as a constant fuel supply," Giles said.
