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The 10 May 1911 Gazette Documented that John Driver, builder, had begun a residence for Blessinger on Locust Street. According to Turcotte, The Growing Years, pp. 37 - 39, Henry Blessinger immigrated from Germany, first working a rented Farms and Farming in West Hamilton, and then settling on a 40-acre Farms and Farming on Waterdown Road in 1881 (perhaps 1350?). His two eldest sons, Harry and Fred, had adjoining Farms and Farmings on Maple Avenue. Henry and his youngest son, Roy, ran the Aldershot Farms and Farming and operated a coal business from the railway station on Waterdown Road. The Blessingers grew fruit and tomatoes, including a large crop of tomatoes which were taken to the Guelph market three times a week because they were not popular with Hamilton consumers. Labourers from the Six Nations Reserve were employed on the Farms and Farming; wooden houses were built for them. Roy Blessinger died in a typhoid epidemic in 1909. Henry and his wife sold the Farms and Farming in 1910 and moved to this house. He died in 1912; Maggie lived until 1934. The 24 April 1912 Gazette Documented the \"sudden death of Mr H. P. Blessinger, Locust St (retired 2 years previously)\". 1916 Sewerage Works Plan: owned by Mrs Blessinger. 1919 Voters List: M. Blessinger, Widow, and Mary Blessinger, Widow, lot 9, Locust 1924 GOAD Map: 71 Locust 1916 Sewerage Works Plan: owned by Richard Cole Was once the residence & office of an optician. 1919 Voters List: M. Blessinger, Widow, and Mary Blessinger, Widow, 9 Locust 1932 Burlington Directory: Mrs H. P. Blessinger & Mary Blessinger, Owners, and Miss Ruth & Mary Blessinger, Boarders, 71 Locust, Owners, 71 Locust 1932 Burlington Directory: Noel & Nora Ernst, Tenants, 71 Locust ARCHITECTURE: A two-and-a-half-storey Edwardian vernacular four-square structure clad with stretcher-bond brick. The truncated hipped roof has an offset gable above a projection with large arched windows with stained-glass in the upper panes. Originally comparable to 544 Locust Street. ENVIRONMENT: Large corner lot (Birch Avenue) with mature trees. The back-yard is fenced in. No landscaping to speak of at the front and sides. USABILITY: Multiple residence. INTEGRITY: The front verandah has been replaced with box-shaped flat-roofed stuccoed addition. The upper window has been replaced with aluminum sliding doors. Other windows on the north side (Birch Avenue) have been bricked in. Exterior steps at the rear to the second level. The front addition could be removed or replaced."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Pat Taylor"},{"label":"Date","value":"1910"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1910"},{"label":"Title","value":"552 Locust Street, Burlington, ON"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"552 Locust Street, Burlington, ON","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/da954dc2-d78b-4396-b306-af7ce7d86271/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"552 Locust Street, Burlington, ON","height":1064,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/da954dc2-d78b-4396-b306-af7ce7d86271/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/da954dc2-d78b-4396-b306-af7ce7d86271","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1064,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/da954dc2-d78b-4396-b306-af7ce7d86271/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/da954dc2-d78b-4396-b306-af7ce7d86271/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/da954dc2-d78b-4396-b306-af7ce7d86271/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}