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Other Art Deco Style elements include the curved corner with grouped small sash windows and the recessing of the paired windows, enhanced by the multiple-level recessing of the front entrance.,The house was built circa 1938 for Betty Taylor, shortly after her retirement from her career as a record-breaking competitor in women's national and international hurdles events. Betty Taylor was a young student at Central Collegiate in Hamilton when she began to compete internationally in women's track and field events. The 1920s and 1930s were an era when women athletes were still sometimes referred to as \"girls\", but it was also a golden age for the Canadian women's track and field team, whose triumph at the 1928 Olympics must have encouraged the ambitions of younger athletes. In 1930, at the age of 14, Betty Taylor easily won the women's 60-metre hurdles at the British Empire Games in Hamilton. She continued to win and set record times provincially and nationally and at the 1934 British Empire Games and Women's World Games, both in London, England. She attended McMaster University as the winner of an athletic scholarship and was an honours student, while continuing to compete. At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, she won the bronze medal in the 80-metre hurdles in a photo-finish where all three winners were given the same time. She had been jostled, but recovered to \"miss Olympic glory by an eyelash\". Later in the year she was short-listed for the Lou Marsh Trophy, awarded annually to the outstanding Canadian athlete (male or female, amateur or professional). She did win the Canadian Press Award as \"Outstanding Girl\" athlete. She retired from track and field in February 1937. Betty Taylor's reasons for choosing an untraditional design no doubt reflect her cosmopolitan experience as an internationally competitive athlete and, in particular, her visit to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics. And perhaps her appreciation for the aesthetics of Art Deco Style was related to her own much-admired \"fluid style\" of hurdling. She \"emerged as Canada's number one distaff hurdler, not on blazing speed, but on smooth hurdling skill\" (an anonymous Canadian sportswriter, undated clipping in the Hamilton Public Library Special Collections). \"There was no question that she was the finest girl hurdler in the [1936 Olympics] games and perhaps the best stylist of either sex\" (Elmer Dulmage, Canadian Press Staff Writer, December 23, 1936). The architect was most probably Edward Glass, whose office from 1938 to 1941 was at 1298 King St East, Hamilton. From 1927 to 1932 he had worked as a draughtsman for Hamilton architect W. Bruce Riddle. From 1932 to 1937 he was Hamilton branch manager for Seigel's Shoes. His parents Solomon and Kate had immigrated from Amsterdam, where the Jewish family had been established for generations; their original name ws Glasoog. Other Art Deco buildings designed by Glass include the Lounsbury residence, 225 St Paul St, Burlington."},{"label":"Creator","value":"unknown"},{"label":"Date","value":"Jan-98"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1998"},{"label":"Title","value":"Betty Taylor House, 2040 Emerald Crescent, 1998"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"Betty Taylor House, 2040 Emerald Crescent, 1998","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/11347c00-e099-4db5-adb8-2d0e703ed40f/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Betty Taylor House, 2040 Emerald Crescent, 1998","height":942,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/11347c00-e099-4db5-adb8-2d0e703ed40f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/11347c00-e099-4db5-adb8-2d0e703ed40f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":942,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/11347c00-e099-4db5-adb8-2d0e703ed40f/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/11347c00-e099-4db5-adb8-2d0e703ed40f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/11347c00-e099-4db5-adb8-2d0e703ed40f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}