A Brief History of the House of Diamonds
The House of Diamonds, a family home converted into an art gallery and art studios, commemorates the creative and energetic power of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians in making a prosperous living for themselves in the great North Atlantic paradise. Built in the mid 1930s as the family home for Viola and Ken Diamond, the house of Diamonds became a bustling centre for a taxi business, a trucking business, a garage business, a wholesale business, and a boarding house business.
Darryl Fry, whose mother Clarice was Ken Diamond's sister, spent many summers in the Diamond family home. There he learnt a lot about business and competition. His Uncle Ken's business smarts in the tricky trades of selling Coke and other products, and the handling of passengers and freight for the Alexander Bay Railway Station, was a source of inspiration to Darryl and helped motivate him to become one of Newfoundland's greatest businessmen.
That is why The Fry Family Foundation provided most of the funding that built the Ken Diamond Memorial Park in Glovertown. That's also why The Fry Family Foundation supports the arts in Glovertown area.
The house of Diamonds stands as a memorial to one of Glovertown's great business families and as a new and exciting promoter of artistic talent in Newfoundland and Labrador.
