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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":"Historic House Project"},{"label":"Description","value":"Plan 99 Pt Lt 70 1885 A. 95 I91 \"Maplehurst\": the Edwin Freeman House HISTORY: Built in 1885 for Edwin Black Freeman, this is virtually the only remnant of the flourishing village of Freeman, which, by the turn of the century, included the Railway Station, a hardware store, a basket factory, a chemical company, a general store, a post office, and a first-class boarding house. The land was orginally part of Joseph Brant's 1798 Crown Grant. Two brothers, Quaker United Empire Loyalists James and Ralph Morden Jr, who had been the first settlers in West Flamboro, Farms and Farminged here from 1810 to 1818, when they sold their properties to Joshua Freeman and moved to Michigan. The son of William Freeman, who in 1759 at the age of 18 had immigrated from Yorkshire to Nova Scotia, Joshua moved to Upper Canada in 1816. His homestead on the north-east corner of Brant Street and the York Road (later Plains Road) was inherited by his son Joshua. His second son Joseph Farms and Farminged on the west side of the intersection. Joseph had three sons. His third son, Smith Freeman, inherited the Farms and Farming and Farms and Farminged until his death in 1932, when the Joseph Freeman house was bought and demolished by Holland Motors. Joseph's older sons, Edwin and Wesley, operated the Freeman village general store and post office. They also formed the Hamilton Nelson Road Company, which operated and maintained the toll road to Hamilton from the present Guelph Line to the Valley Inn at the west end of Burlington Bay. Five generations of the Freeman family lived in this house until 1988, when it was sold to become the new location for the Henry Sieders Funeral Home. It is now the office for ... 18 September 1907 Gazette: at \"Maplehurst\", the residence of Mr & Mrs Edwin Freeman, the marriage of their daughter Olive Eleanor Grace to Edmund Barry Smith of Hartford, Connecticut. 1907 Town Council Schedule for granolithic sidewalk assessment: J. W. Freeman 1909 Polling List: E. B. Freeman, age 61, Gentleman, Brant St, Lot 70 ARCHITECTURE: This is the first house built by A. B. Coleman, and was to be the mirror Photograph of a house built by him for a member of the Ghent family at Brant and Caroline Streets (now demolished). It is also almost identical to the house built in 1885 for John and Sarah (Kitchen) Heslop, now 5387 Upper Middle Road (demolished in 1998). Like Coleman's later commissions, the Edwin Freeman house is of top quality in design and structure. The Edwin Freeman House is a two-and-a-half storey brick structure was built in vernacular style with Italianate and Gothic decorative elements. The truncated hipped roof is broken on the front (east) elevation by an offset gable above a two-and-a-half storey projection with a semi-octagonal bay at the first level. Above the three-window bay, there are two windows at the second level, and one arched window at the third level. This feature is repeated on the south elevation. The arched windows are set into broken gables, which are decorated with ornate gingerbread bargeboard. The roof cornices are boxed with a wide moulded frieze with carved rosettes and small heavy bracket supports. The windows are segmental wood sash with stone sills and dichromatic brick radiating voussoirs extending around the sides of the headers. The front entrance has a wide segmental transom and full length sidelights. The verandah has a mansard roof, which matches the bay roofs, supported by columns with vestigial Tuscan capitals with pierced radiating brackets and a decorative band under the frieze. The interior is well preserved, with cranberry and blue glass in the doors, plaster ceiling medallions, and other details. The circular oak staircase is said to be unique, since Coleman found it so troublesome to construct that he refused to repeat it for other clients. ENVIRONMENT: Situated on a slight knoll in an industrial and commercial area with new strip-mall developments, this is a conspicuous heritage landmark building. USABILITY: It has been adapted for office use. INTEGRITY: The shutters visible in the early photograph reproduced in Dorothy Turcotte's Burlington: Memories of Pioneer Days, p. 43, have been removed, and the new replacement doors are not in period style, but otherwise the house has been exquisitely maintained and restored. The brick and windows of the large rear addition have been carefully matched. According to an article by Suzanne Bourret in the Spectator (11 March 1988), Henry Sieder indicated to the vendors, Bob and Nancy Freeman, his plans to keep the old family character of the home. It was restored inside and outside to its original style. In 1991 it was the winner of a Heritage Award for excellent restoration, renovation and maintenance. It is an outstanding landmark at the intersection of Brant and Fairview Streets."},{"label":"Date","value":"1885"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1885"},{"label":"Title","value":"906 Brant Street, Burlington, ON"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"906 Brant Street, Burlington, ON","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d3e2a50a-b869-4016-bd26-ca8fa649f974/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"906 Brant Street, Burlington, ON","height":694,"width":1062,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d3e2a50a-b869-4016-bd26-ca8fa649f974/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/d3e2a50a-b869-4016-bd26-ca8fa649f974","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":694,"width":1062},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d3e2a50a-b869-4016-bd26-ca8fa649f974/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d3e2a50a-b869-4016-bd26-ca8fa649f974/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d3e2a50a-b869-4016-bd26-ca8fa649f974/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}