{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/22259be3-8d70-49ad-8cdb-72a4e5acb494/manifest","label":"bhs_206803","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_206803"},{"label":"Rights","value":["Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user."]},{"label":"Language","value":["EN"]},{"label":"Format","value":["JPEG"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Photograph"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["Houses"]},{"label":"Source","value":"Historic House Project"},{"label":"Description","value":"ARCHITECTURE: This two-and-a-half storey solid brick structure, built in a Second-Empire Style, has many distinctive design features. Its Mansard roof has small dormers with arched windows in ornate frames, which have fluted pilasters supporting gabled cornices. The wide eaves are supported by paired wood brackets. The windows and doors have segmental heads with interrupted buff brick accents above and dressed stone keystones. The dressed stone sills have stepped buff brick supports. The quoins are formed of buff brick with red-brick imitation masonry lines between. The semi-octagonal bay window has a Mansard-style roof with brackets and a stone course below, with dentillated brick supports. Below this bay are relief panels of bricks set vertically and diagonally. Above the bay is a pair of windows within a segmented arch opening. Above the high stone foundation are relief courses of brick. Eight steps rise to the elevated entrance, which has an arched transom and sidelights with a leaded glass. The interior has many original features, including an oak staircase and a fireplaces in the sitting room. HISTORY: This house was built in 1890 as part of Lot A of Plan 71, Peter Redpath's Survey, registered in 1878. On the other part of Lot A, Ellis Hughes Cleaver built his house in the same year. Both houses are illustrated in Martha Craig, The Garden of Canada, (1902) p. 28. This is identified by Craig as the \"Residence of Dr Hart, Burlington\". 1897 Voters List: Rev. C. V. Hart, Minister, Farms and Farming lands, Caroline. 1903 Assessmenr Roll: Rev Dr C. V. Hart, Clergyman, age 63, and Rev. Ross Hart, Clergyman, age 32, Caroline St. Block C, Lot 71. The 2 March 1904 Gazette Documented the death of the Rev. Dr. V. C. Hart, age 63, at his home. Virgil C. Hart was born in 1840 in Jefferson County, N. Y., and studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Northwestern University, and the Theologival Seminary at Evanston, Illinois, between 1857 and 1865. He married in 1866 and served as a missionary for the Methodist Church in China from 1867. In 1888 he returned for health reasons and \"sought rest on a little Farms and Farming in Burlington\". In 1891 he went again to China, returning to Canada in poor health after the riots during the Japanese war. In 1897 he went back to China, leaving during the Boxer rebellion in 1900, and returning to Burlington in 1901 after spending the Winter in California. He then devoted his time to occasional lecturing and to writing - \"a work on Western China and another on Confucianism\". He was survived by his widow, four sons - Rev. E. J. Hart of Sault Ste. Marie, Prof. M. Hart of St. Louis, Dr Egerton Hart of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital at Wu Hu, China, and Rev. Ross Hart of Burlington - and a daughter, Mrs Hare, of Halifax. In the 1909 Polling List, the Rev. Dr C. V. [sic] Hart, Clergyman (age 63) and the Rev. Ross Hart, Clergyman (age 32), are listed as residents of the house, then identified as 40 Caroline Street. Both father and son were clergymen. The 14 February 1912 Gazette: Documented on an address to a meeting of the Women's Institute by V. R. Hart, B.A., on \"Twentieth Century Woman\". 1916 Sewerage Works Plan: owned by Ross Hart. 1917, 1918, 1922 Telephone Directories: V. R. Hart, Fruit, Caroline. 1919 Voters List: Ross Hart, Gardener, Part Lot 71, Caroline. The 27 March 1929 Gazette Documented the \"sudden death in Montreal of Rev. E. J. Hart, age 63, brother of the late Ross Hart. He was the owner of several houses on Caroline St.\" The 24 April 1929 Gazette announce an auction of goods by Mrs Ross Hart: \"her house has been rented to McVannel.\" Virgil Chitterden Hart died in 1920. Virgil Ross Hart died in 1935; the property was then sold to Elmer Sinclair. he dichromatic brickwork of this house suggests that it may have been constructed by the masons and builders of Knox Presbyterian Church. The present brick Church was built in 1877, and the original 1845 frame structure was faced with brick then. The Elizabeth Street entrance vestibule was built in 1910. ENVIRONMENT: This familiar landmark building is set back from the street, with a long front avenue lined with mature Norway Spruces, which were pinched long ago into \"candlestick\" forms. The Hart House and its well-preserved landscape features make a very strong contribution to the streetscape of Caroline Street. This is an essential complement to the neighbouring property, the Cleaver House. These two historic Victorian mansions combine with nearby Craftsman Style bungalows, houses in Art Moderne and Neo-Georgian styles, and vernacular Edwardian square-plan structures, to create an exceptionally variegated heritage residential district on the borders of the commercial sector of Downtown Burlington. USABILITY: The house has been adapted for contemporary residential use. INTEGRITY: The 1902 photograph by Martha Craig shows the original double-leaf door and the open verandah before it was enclosed. A one-storey flat-roofed rear addition has a deck area with a wood railing and exterior stairs to the back garden, when an inground swimming opool has been installed. The house has been very well maintained, and the present owners received a Heritage Award in 1995. EVALUATION: Grade A, of major significance and a high priority for preservation. Worthy of designation. REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Hart House was built in 1890 for the Reverend Dr C. V. Hart, a missionary for the Methodist Church in China from 1867 to 1888 and from 1892 to 1900. His son Ross also became a Methodist clergyman. The vernacular Second Empire Style of the house is rare in Burlington. The many distinctive design features include dichromatic brick quoins and window headers with dressed stone keystones, and decorative relief brick patterns. This familiar landmark property makes a strong contribution to the heritage residential district of Caroline Street."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Pat Taylor"},{"label":"Date","value":"1885"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1885"},{"label":"Title","value":"2057 Caroline Street, Burlington - The Hart House"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"2057 Caroline Street, Burlington - The Hart House","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/22259be3-8d70-49ad-8cdb-72a4e5acb494/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2057 Caroline Street, Burlington - The Hart House","height":1064,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/22259be3-8d70-49ad-8cdb-72a4e5acb494/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/22259be3-8d70-49ad-8cdb-72a4e5acb494","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1064,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/22259be3-8d70-49ad-8cdb-72a4e5acb494/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/22259be3-8d70-49ad-8cdb-72a4e5acb494/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/22259be3-8d70-49ad-8cdb-72a4e5acb494/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}