{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/860d3a9c-8154-450f-a46c-5dc275504ff6/manifest","label":"bhs_208973","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_208973"},{"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":"Description","value":"Plan 92, Blk K, Lts 6, 7, Pt Lt 8 1855/80 A. 79 BHS The Bastedo ÔÇô Redmond ÔÇô John Kentner House. HISTORY: According to the BHS Plaque, built in 1880 for Joseph Redmond, shoemaker. However, the property was owned by John Thompson Bastedo from 1855 to 1873, and the house may have been built as early as 1855 for Bastedo. It is shown on the ÔÇÿ1836ÔÇÖ Map of Wellington Square (circa 1856). It may have been renovated and enlarged in 1880 for Redmond. In 1871 Joseph Redmond is listed in the Assessment Rolls as a Land Agent and in 1885 as a shoemaker. Turcotte, Memories of Pioneer Days, pp. 83ÔÇô5, gives a brief history of the Bastedo family. The Bastedos lived in Spain until 1628, when they fled the Inquisition and moved first to the Netherlands, then to England, and then to Schenectady, New York State, where Gilbert Bastedo was born in 1777. Orphaned as a young boy, he emigrated to Canada with his uncle family in 1784. In 1806 he drew a lot on Dundas Street in the Crown Grant lottery. He Farms and Farminged there until his death, when he left 32 grandChildren and youth and 5 great-grandChildren and youth. John Thompson Bastedo was one of his many descendents in Nelson Township. BHS title search: Sold in 1844 by Andrew Gage to Daniel Torrance; in 1855 to John Thompson Bastedo; in 1873 to Thomas Baxter; in 1878 from his estate to Robert P. Aikman, physician; in 1880 to Joseph Redmond; his will in 1887 instructs his estate to sell a house occupied by one Galloway; in 1893 from his estate to John Kentner. The 1897 Voters List includes John Kentner, Wood Dealer, on Lots 5 and 6, Elizabeth St. His lumber yard and planing mill business was located at what is now 463 Brant Street. Martha Craig, in The Garden of Canada (1902), p. 42, illustrates theResidence of J. Kentner, Esq, Burlington, which appears to be this house. 1903 Assessment Roll: John Kentner, Dealer Wood & Lumber, age 57, Elizabeth St Block K, Lots 5 &6 The 1906 Telephone Directory includes John Kentner, Planing Mill, Elizabeth St. He retired in 1912 to a house built for him at what is now 548 Locust St. 1916 Sewerage Works Plan: owned by Thomas Snodgrass. 1919 Voters List: Thomas Snodgrass, Teamster, and Mrs R. M. Snodgrass, M(arried) W(oman), at Lot 6, Elizabeth St (also Mrs E. Summers, Widow). 1917, 1918, 1922 Telephone Directories: Thomas Snodgrass, Elizabeth St. 1910 GOAD Map: 44 Elizabeth 1924 GOAD Map: 24 Elizabeth 1932 Burlington Directory: Thomas & Rita Snodgrass, Owners, and Miss N. M. Snodgrass, Boarder, 24 Elizabeth LACAC: ÔÇÿA Walking Tour of Downtown BurlingtonÔÇÖ Wellington Square Walking Tour, October 1992 ARCHITECTURE: A one-and-a-half storey front-gabled structure of hand-made brick. The front entrance, located for a side-hall layout, has side lights and a three piece transom with leaded glazing and heavy articulation. A hipped-roof semi-octagonal bay window at the first level. The windows are segmental 2/2 wood sash with radiating brick voussoirs and dressed stone sills. The gabled roof has gingerbread and corbelled chimneys at both front and back. The front elevation of this house is comparable to that of Kentner Lumber Yard and Planing Mill, also built in 1850ÔÇô1855. ENVIRONMENT: Successfully incorporated into the Village Square shopping district. USABILITY: Converted into a restaurant, in keeping with the commercial land use zoning. INTEGRITY: The original south side verandah has been removed. A flat-roofed side vestible entrance is enclosed by attractive glass and wood panels. A large greenhouse-style addition at the north side. Well maintained. EVALUATION: A. 79. Of major significance and worthy of designation under the Ontario Heritage Act."},{"label":"Date","value":"ca 1990"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1990"},{"label":"Title","value":"423 Elizabeth Street, Burlington ON \"The Dickens House\""},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"423 Elizabeth Street, Burlington ON \"The Dickens House\"","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/860d3a9c-8154-450f-a46c-5dc275504ff6/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"423 Elizabeth Street, Burlington ON \"The Dickens House\"","height":349,"width":500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/860d3a9c-8154-450f-a46c-5dc275504ff6/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/860d3a9c-8154-450f-a46c-5dc275504ff6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":349,"width":500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/860d3a9c-8154-450f-a46c-5dc275504ff6/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/860d3a9c-8154-450f-a46c-5dc275504ff6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/860d3a9c-8154-450f-a46c-5dc275504ff6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}