{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d6841774-6cac-4143-8129-35bccec6f4de/manifest","label":"bhs_204703","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_204703"},{"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":"A laser print of an original photograph. \"The Seigneury\" was built in 1934 for Vic and Marion Emery, who in 1920 bought a beautiful 5-acre lot on the north shore of the Bay, Lots 135 to 148 of W. D. Flatt's Glenhaven Survey Plan. It was located immediately to the east of Wabasso Park, owned by the City of Hamilton and renamed La Salle Park in 1926. The park site is supposed to have been the landing point in 1679 for Robert Cavalier de la Salle, the great explorer of New France. A memorial stone and plaque commemorating this event was dedicated in 1922. The Emerys were intrigued by the connection between their property and the old First Nations trail, followed by La Salle, leading from the Bay to Lake Medad, and began to conceive the idea of building a house that would commemorate this important historic association. Marion Emery, a talented artist, and Vic were close friends of the famous artist C. W. Jeffreys, whose special goal was to develop English-speaking Canadians' awareness of the early history of New France. In 1934 the Emerys commissioned an architect, Herbert Eastwood Murton, to design a house in the style of a 17th-century seigneur's manor in New France: a two-story central section, with one-storey wings; steep-hipped pavillon roofs, broken by dormer windows; paired small-pane windows; a tall stone chimney; and a cone-roofed tower with a stone base and an upper level coverd with (lime plaster). The \"roof-tree' was a timber cut from their property. The exterior finish of the walls was half-timbering and colombage. The vertical posts (poteaux) were set and the half-timber infill was either colombage pierrote (rubble stone and mortar) or colombage (mortar-like mix.) Biographical Dictionary of Canada 1800 - 1950: http://www.dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org \"Murton was active for more than forty years in the Hamilton region, yet few references to his work can be found. Born in Hamilton on 23 April 1889 he entered the office of Stewart & Witton in 1908 to serve an apprenticeship and remained there until 1918 when he moved to New York City to enroll in special courses at Columbia University from 1918 to 1920. He returned to Hamilton and formed a partnership with Louis O. Secord. In early 1926 he decided to return to New York and landed a position with none other than Raymond Hood, winner (with John Howells) of the Chicago Tribune Tower competition in 1922 and one of the important early modernist architects in the American age of the skyscraper. Murton then opened his own office in Plainfield, N.J. in June 1926, practising there until 1930 when he moved back to Hamilton. He maintained an office under his own name until 1947 when he formed a partnership with William G. Evans. During this period he designed many private houses in a Tudor Revival style, the most notable of which was the sumptuous and impeccably detailed residence for A.M. Masuret in London, Ont. (1935). Murton was active until after 1960 and resigned from the Ontario Assoc. of Architects in December 1961 (inf. Ontario Assoc. of Architects). \" The Emerys sold the property in 1957 to Thomas Cochren. After Cochren's death it was sold to a buyer who had the house demolished in September 2000 without a demolition permit, so that there was no possibility of photographic documentation by Heritage Burlington LACAC. \"The Seigneury\" Scrapbook by Marion Emery remains as a poignant and informative record of this historic building."},{"label":"Contributor","value":"Vicki (nee Emery) Gudgeon"},{"label":"Date","value":"1934"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1934"},{"label":"Title","value":"The Seigneury, North Shore Boulevard, 1934"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"The Seigneury, North Shore Boulevard, 1934","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d6841774-6cac-4143-8129-35bccec6f4de/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"The Seigneury, North Shore Boulevard, 1934","height":917,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d6841774-6cac-4143-8129-35bccec6f4de/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/d6841774-6cac-4143-8129-35bccec6f4de","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":917,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d6841774-6cac-4143-8129-35bccec6f4de/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d6841774-6cac-4143-8129-35bccec6f4de/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d6841774-6cac-4143-8129-35bccec6f4de/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}