{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49dc2541-492e-4424-8473-3114a1372c2d/manifest","label":"bhs_203590","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_203590"},{"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":"Publisher","value":"Mrs B. J. Gilbert, Townscape Analysis: A Study of the Growth and Urban Renewal Problems in \"Old Burlington\", April 1973"},{"label":"Description","value":"The old coach house, built for Dr Metherell's horse and carriage, can be seen at the right.,Mrs Gilbert's caption: \"[Photograph no.] 22. \"1375 Ontario Street - an excellent example of Victorian Architecture common to both Canada and the United States in the late nineteenth century.\" \"In the residential area west of Brant Street are many older homes that date back to the last half of the nineteenth century. A feature common to several homes is the \"gingerbread\" effect derived through the use of fretsaw decorations. The best example of this is a home at 1375 Ontario Street just north of St Luke's Anglican Church. In the late 1800s it is said have been the home a doctor, but without searching the deed this fact cannot be proven. The house is presently divided into two apartments, with the owner living on the main floor. It appears that the original builder tried to incorporate as many different fretwork styles as possible into one structure. It contains such elements as stained glass windows, scalloped lap siding, arched windows and balconies, Italianate pile under the eaves, and fretsaw trim around the gables. Such an excellent example of Victorian architecture should definitely be preserved as an historical record. As this building is examined again and again it is fascinating to find more and more variety in the designs used. To lose this building to high-rise development would be a destruction of some of Burlington's history.\" (pp. 13-14),Built In \"Carpenter Gothic\" style in 1893 as a residence for himself by A. B. (Alfred Brigham) Coleman, this is an exuberant display of the Coleman brothers' carpentry and decoration skills . Coleman was Burlington's most internationally famous builder and developer. The Brant Hotel and Brant Inn (both now demolished) and his development of Indian Point at the turn of the last century made a generation of American millionaire visitors aware of Burlington Ontario, and even to an extent aware of our earlier immigrant from the USA, Joseph Brant, after whom Coleman's son Brant was named. At the turn of the present century, Coleman's \"Gingerbread House\" represents an opportunity to develop a tourism link with the rebuilt Joseph Brant House. In 1899 Coleman sold his house to Helen Metherell, wife of Hamilton physician Dr. George Metherell, who practised medicine here until 1915. The property was then sold to W. B. Ford, a Civil Engineer, who duplexed the house. His housekeeper, Catherine Pope Thomson, and her family lived in the upstairs apartment. Following the deaths of Ivy and Tom Thomson in 1999, the property was put up for sale with an emphatic advertising notice : \"not historical designated\". Although it is still not designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, the buildings and garden have been very well renovated and restored by the present owner."},{"label":"Contributor","value":"Mrs Barbara J. Gilbert"},{"label":"Creator","value":"B. J. Gilbert"},{"label":"Date","value":"1973"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1973"},{"label":"Title","value":"The Gingerbread House, 1375 Ontario Street, 1973"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"The Gingerbread House, 1375 Ontario Street, 1973","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49dc2541-492e-4424-8473-3114a1372c2d/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"The Gingerbread House, 1375 Ontario Street, 1973","height":1077,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49dc2541-492e-4424-8473-3114a1372c2d/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/49dc2541-492e-4424-8473-3114a1372c2d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1077,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49dc2541-492e-4424-8473-3114a1372c2d/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49dc2541-492e-4424-8473-3114a1372c2d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49dc2541-492e-4424-8473-3114a1372c2d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}