{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/7ba7e2f6-ff81-4342-9c87-e229ca62278b/manifest","label":"bhs_203985","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_203985"},{"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":["PDF"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Photograph"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["Houses"]},{"label":"Source","value":"Historic House Project"},{"label":"Notes","value":"Reproduction. Photograph only"},{"label":"Description","value":"Plan 99, Pt Lt 29 1896 A Ôêå The William Benner House HISTORY: Originally part of the land granted by the Crown Grant to Joseph Brant in 1798, this was part of James S. McMurray's Brant Farms and Farming Subdivision, Plan 47, registered in 1869. In that year the land was purchased by James McMurray from William J. Simcoe Kerr, Brant's grandson. McMurray took a mortgage for $2000, discharged in 1870. In 1870 two lots were sold to Joseph and Thomas Ireland; in 1874/75 this lot passed to Joseph Ireland; in 1880 to George Pearson, bachelor; in 1885 to William John Benner & his wife Agnes Emma. There was a mortgage to William Kerns in 1886 for $400. The 1871 Census includes William Benner (32, born in Ontario, Episcopal Methodist, Irish extraction, Labourer), his wife Agnes (23), and their Children and youth William (4) and Lameel (2). The house was built for the Benners in 1896 (date stone). On the Brant Farms and Farming Judges Plan 99 (1900), the Farms and Farming is shown as the property of W. Benner. Murray Fisher, in \"Farewell to the Garden of Canada\" (1984), identifies this as the Farms and Farming of \"Walter Benner. Market Gardener.\" This appears to be one of Fisher's rare errors. He also has \"Wm. Benner, Market gardener and produce sales\", but shows him on the Hammond property (1003 Greenwood Drive). In 1928 this part of the lot passed from Wm. J. Benner's estate to his son William John Benner. In 1957 it was sold to Ethel Mae & Aleksander Barnes. Mr Barnes worked at the Royal Botanical Gardens. Mrs Barnes, nee Sault, was of the New Credit nation. Her son Carl and his family lived in the upstairs apartment. She returned to the New Credit Reserve after the death of Mr Barnes in 1979. Mary (Kirby) Robson 2006 notes: Mr & Mrs Benner had two sons, William (Bill) and Walter. Bill had a red panel truck with a loud speaker system sporting tow large horn shaped peakers on top and drove all over town to announce bingo games, the Lions Club Carnival, and many other events. The small valley behind the house had a sizable pond, known as Benner's Pond, where many young people in Burlington skated in Winter. (This was before the QEW divided King's Road into Lockhart & Greenwood.) It was dimly lit at night. Skaters were asked for 5 cents if they had it, if the surface had been flooded, but could skate anyway even if they didn't pay. People sat on a plank resting on orange crates to put their skates on & off. Mr & Mrs Alex Barnes owned the house after he had retired as manager of M. M. Bobby Robinson's Farms and Farming on Maple Avenue. They were Mohawk Indians and very fine people -- friends of the Kirby family. In 1979 it was sold to Donna Karp, wife of Myron Karp, an architect, who returned the structure to single family use and made several interior alterations. In 1987 it was purchased by the present owners, Andr?® and Shannon Chartrand. ARCHITECTURE: This one-and-a-half storey end-gabled brick structure, with a centre front gable over an arched window, is a typical Ontario Cottage style Farms and Farminghouse, but somewhat taller than usual, with higher ceilings on both first and second levels. There is also an attic level with a small shed-roofed dormer window set into the front roof. The centre gable has decorative bargeboard panel, featured in the Gables of Burlington Poster, 1989. There is also a relief tile with the date, 1896, set into the brick just below the bargeboard. The central front entrance door has a transom with a segmental brick arch. The segmental arch is repeated in all the windows except for the front gable window, which has a round arch. All the windows have stone sills. The rear wing is an old addition. The interior features include the original door frames, with squared roundels at the upper corners, original windows, and the original door to the rear verandah. The present owners have framed a piece of the original hand-blocked wallpaper from wall by the stairway to the attic. ENVIRONMENT: In \"Farewell to the Garden of Canada\" Murray Fisher observes: This irregular road [that is, Greenwood Drive and Lockhart Road] is not square with anything, and I have no idea how it happened this way. To add to its problems the Q.?áE. Way crosses it and so access is only possible from either end. The soil here is excellent, on a par with Maple Avenue and there has always been first class produce, fruit and vegetables come from this area. The Cemetery has a very fine site, never any muddy roads even after rain. It was opened in the 1880s and has been the main burial place for most Burlingtonians since that time. Access to the Cemetery has been improved by opening up Francis Road on the Nelson - East Flamborough Town Line, running from Plains Road to No 2 Highway. Francis Road is really an extension of Job's Road. This house is located across the road from the entrance to the historic Greenwood Cemetery. USABILITY: The house has been well adapted for comfortable residential use. INTEGRITY: The second storey of the rear addition may date from the 1950s. In 1982 the first storey of the rear addition was enlarged: an old glazed or screened side verandah was enclosed and insulated, and an existing wood-burning stove was relocated there. The original half basement and root cellar at the front and crawl space under the rear wing were rebuilt by the Karps as a full basement, with a lowered floor. Alterations include a small unroofed replacement front porch; aluminum replacement storm windows and storm doors; and a rectangular replacement window in the centre front gable."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Pat Taylor"},{"label":"Date","value":"1896"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1896"},{"label":"Title","value":"1043 Greenwood Drive, Burlington, ON"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"1043 Greenwood Drive, Burlington, ON","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/7ba7e2f6-ff81-4342-9c87-e229ca62278b/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"bhs_203985-1","height":990,"width":1200,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/369e256a-9b72-4529-90b9-e6d82edf810d/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/369e256a-9b72-4529-90b9-e6d82edf810d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":990,"width":1200},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/7ba7e2f6-ff81-4342-9c87-e229ca62278b/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/369e256a-9b72-4529-90b9-e6d82edf810d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/7ba7e2f6-ff81-4342-9c87-e229ca62278b/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"bhs_203985-2","height":533,"width":800,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49fc9edc-df70-439f-b1a8-4fbe045d1733/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/49fc9edc-df70-439f-b1a8-4fbe045d1733","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2]}]},"height":533,"width":800},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/7ba7e2f6-ff81-4342-9c87-e229ca62278b/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/49fc9edc-df70-439f-b1a8-4fbe045d1733/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/369e256a-9b72-4529-90b9-e6d82edf810d/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}