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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. The two-storey stuccoed flat-roofed structure is built in Art Deco Style, which is rare in Burlington and Hamilton. The only other Art Deco structure in Burlington, 225 St Paul Street, built in 1938 for Minnie & Marshall Lounsbury, was designed by Edward Glass of Hamilton. Art Deco is an International Modern architectural and design style of the 1920s and 1930s, a Jazz Age fashion with its origins in sophisticated European taste. Its name derives from the Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in 1925. Its characteristic structures sometimes have added decoration - an outstanding example is the Chrysler Building in New York City (1929) - but in many Art Deco buildings the decorative elements are severely restrained. They result from a scrupulous attention to detail and a respect for the modernist architectural programme, \"form follows function\", with an absence of historical design references. Canadian builders and architects (and, of course, buyers) in the twentieth century were very slow to adopt modern architectural styles. Single family residential styles were the most conservative. Thus, the best example of Art Deco construction in this area is the TH&B Railway Station in Hamilton, built in 1931-3, designed by New York City architects, and recently restored to its original beauty. The link betweeen its aesthetics and the economic realities of the 1930s depression was recognized in 1932, when it was described as being \"distinctly utilitarian in design, including chaste lines and dispensing with ornamentation\". Although several Art Deco residences are located in some Canadian cities, such as Victoria, BC, most Art Deco house purchasers were isolated individualists. For instance, Lawren Harris, the Group of Seven painter, commissioned the avant-garde design of his Art Deco house in Toronto in 1929 from a Russian emigre architect, who was the first woman architect to join the Ontario Association of Architects; she never obtained another commission and spent the rest of her working life as a nurse in a Toronto-area hospital. It is therefore much to be regretted that the name of the architect of 2040 Emerald Crescent is not yet known. 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 original design of the Betty Taylor house is very well proportioned but simple and unadorned. The flat roof is outlined by a restrained linear cornice. The exterior surface walls are parged with smooth stucco. 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. Deisgnated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1998."},{"label":"Contributor","value":"Chris Bryan"},{"label":"Creator","value":"Chris Bryan"},{"label":"Date","value":"21-May-08"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:21 M:05 Y:2008"},{"label":"Title","value":"2040 Emerald Crescent, 2008"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"2040 Emerald Crescent, 2008","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/2bb3b55f-d52c-49c2-8ac7-82a88498b24b/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2040 Emerald Crescent, 2008","height":1200,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/2bb3b55f-d52c-49c2-8ac7-82a88498b24b/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/2bb3b55f-d52c-49c2-8ac7-82a88498b24b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1200,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/2bb3b55f-d52c-49c2-8ac7-82a88498b24b/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/2bb3b55f-d52c-49c2-8ac7-82a88498b24b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/2bb3b55f-d52c-49c2-8ac7-82a88498b24b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}