This elaborate Queen Anne Revival house in Fredericton holds a surprising amount of class-related history. The Hatt House was designed for Annie and Charles Hatt in 1885. Annie was the daughter of Alexander "Boss" Gibson, the multi-talented entrepreneur who is credited with vitalizing the industrial development of Marysville (now a part of Fredericton), while her husband Charles worked as an accountant at Gibson's cotton mill.
 
This house provides an interesting insight into the divide between regular workers and managers in Victorian industrial towns such as Marysville. The house is located on "Nob Hill", named after "Nob", a Victorian slang term for industry management. The hill is covered by the homes of Gibson's family, as well as the managers and overseers of his businesses. The position of the hill allowed it to overlook both the St. John River and the downtown area, where the workers lived. This marked a sharp physical divide between the classes.
 
The size and amount of decoration of a house were also determined by whether it was owned by a family member of Gibson, a manager, or a normal worker. Hatt House is unique in this regard as it was inhabited by both a Gibson family member and a Gibson manager. The combined prestige of the couple is evident in the house's massive size, being two-and-a-half stories tall when most nearby structures were just one-and-a-half stories, and its lavish decoration, which is more elaborate than its already luxurious neighbors.