{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/8ee32f79-2d33-4e94-a849-e64737a4ef05/manifest","label":"bhs_206702","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_206702"},{"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":"LACAC Inventory"},{"label":"Description","value":"A commodious, two-storey house with an unfinished attic under a hipped roof, this is a first-quality example of Edwardian vernacular Queen Anne Style. Its most distinctive feature is its double orientation, towards Walkers Line and New Street: large projecting bays on both east and south sides shelter a south-east corner verandah. Both bays have wood-shingled frontispiece gables enclosing neo-Palladian windows. This doubling is a design motif repeated throughout: there are two front entrance doors, each with oval glazing, opening on to the verandah. Each of the two projecting bays features large windows with shallow arches of coloured glass, at both first and second levels. There are also two half-round windows, on the first and second level, Even the second-storey rear windows are a pair. All windows set in brick walls have stone lintels and keystones in voussoirs of textured brick with raised ear mouldings. High-quality detail work is also evident in the dentil trim of the gables and dentillated cornice of the verandah. The verandah is supported by Doric colonettes on stone plinths and brick piers; its railing supports have baluster silhouettes. The specimen Maple by the verandah was planted for the marriage in 1908 of John Henry Jr and Beatrice Shayler.,Walkers Line is named after the family descended from William Walker (1743 - 1819), a United Empire Loyalist who came to Canada in 1796 with nine of his ten Children and youth, after his 800-acre Farms and Farming property in North Carolina had been confiscated. His descendents prospered as pioneer Farms and Farmingers settled in the uncleared land of Upper Canada. In 1816 his ninth child Philip moved from Grimsby to settle on what is now Walkers Line. He and his wife Susannah Cline had ten Children and youth. One of their sons, Hiram, married Julia Cline and they had 13 Children and youth. One of their sons, John Henry (1850 -1911) married Frances Isabella Alton (1856-1938) and established his Farms and Farming on his 94-acre share, north of New Street between Pine Cove Road and Walkers Line. This house and barn were built circa 1908. The house and Farms and Farming remained in the Walker family until 1946. Many descendents of this large and prosperous family still live in the area. According to Elwood Walker, \" When we were married (in 1936), Maude was the fifth Mrs Walker in less than one mile.\" In 1992 the property was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act at the owners' request. According to the designation site visit Document prepared by LACAC in 1992: \" The house interior has been professionally renovated, with modern fitted kitchen and luxury bathroom. The plaster cove ceilings and walls have been restored, and the floors refinished (oak and maple on the first floor, fir on the second floor). The oak staircase and banisters are also being refinished. The owners plan to finish the attic level as a playroom space. Exterior work remains to be done: eavestroughs and repainting of the wood trim. The roof appears sound. There is a rubblestone foundation with an exterior entrance which will need replacement or alteration.\" \"The owners have included the barn in the designation and intend to renovate it. The barn roof and fascia need work, and other wood restoration will be needed; but the renovation of this barn could be an oustanding example to other barn owners in Burlington. This barn has unusual character and potential.\" Th owner, a general contractor, was interviewed and photographed at work in his house. In \"History sparkles in Victorian gem\", The Spectator, 8 August 1992, the owner is quoted: \" I see so many developers who take a house for property value and tear it down. [We] just looked at this and said, let's do it and do it right. It has class and potential.\" Neighbours - especially elderly residents who remember the home in its heyday -grill him on his plans. They're very protective of it, he says. \"I hope to open up the downstairs when we're through and host an open house. So many people see a derelict house and think it's hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix it up. We hope to show people in Burlington that you don't have to tear them down.\" City Council on December 10 2012 approved the repeal of the designation bylaw, at the same owner's request. They went so far as to \"waive the requirement for the owner of the designated priopertyt at 496 Walkers Line to provide a Heritage Impact Statement for the demolition of the barn on the designated peorerty and the repeal of the designating bylaw, as required by the City's Official Plan and authorized under Section 33(2) of the Ontario Heritage Act, RSO 1990, Chapter 0.18\". A Document submitted in 2012 by a home inspector firm hired by the owner Documented and photographed the results of twenty years of \"demolition by neglect\". It must be said that the Document by the heritage consultant hired by the City includes photos showing the strengths of the existing structure of the house, despite neglect. The owner's appeal is heart-wrenching, in view of his hopes twenty years ago: \"I have been diagnosed with a progressively crippling disease, and have been told I have five years to live. My only option left is to sell my home. Because we are designated Heritage we are finding it very difficult to sell. Any offers we have received have all been subject to the designation being removed.\""},{"label":"Creator","value":"Harold Sears"},{"label":"Date","value":"Apr-90"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1990"},{"label":"Title","value":"496 Walkers Line, 1990"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"496 Walkers Line, 1990","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/8ee32f79-2d33-4e94-a849-e64737a4ef05/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"496 Walkers Line, 1990","height":1084,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/8ee32f79-2d33-4e94-a849-e64737a4ef05/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/8ee32f79-2d33-4e94-a849-e64737a4ef05","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1084,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/8ee32f79-2d33-4e94-a849-e64737a4ef05/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/8ee32f79-2d33-4e94-a849-e64737a4ef05/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/8ee32f79-2d33-4e94-a849-e64737a4ef05/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}