{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/e16c449e-b9a2-4f0a-a13f-321ca5e01a6d/manifest","label":"bhs_206596","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_206596"},{"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":"Buit in 1910 as the residence of James Harrison, the former owner of a lumber and planing mill on Brant Street, a business sold in 1908 to Messrs Brennan and Sons, of Hamilton, and then to Allan S. Nicholson of Waterdown. Martha Craig's \"The Garden of Canada\", published in 1902, devotes 3 pages to James Harrison. In her account of \"Burlington's Up-to-date Planing Mill and Lumber Yard\", Craig Documents that Harrison opened his business on Brant Street opposite Ontario Street in February 1899, after the destruction by fire of the Coleman Lumber Company's Mill. Harrison had been secretary-treasurer of that company, which had been developed and expanded by Coleman from an earlier planing mill business. When Coleman turned his energies from the lumber business to construction and development - developing the Hotel Brant and taking up large building contracts in the Beach Strip, Toronto, Fort Erie, and elsewhere - Harrison opened his new planing yard and lumber mill to provide materials for builders and manufacturing concerns in Hamilton as well as Burlington and the surrounding area. Craig Documents that the Harrison yards contain a large stock of various kinds of lumber, and that the mill is \"fitted throughout with new machinery of the most improved make, and is operated by electric power from Niagara Falls\". Her photographs show a portrait of Harrison himself, two views of his mill and yard, and a view of his very substantial residence (now demolished) on Water Street (now Lakeshore Road). This property was part of the fruit tree nursery owned by H. H. Hurd, a Hamilton resident, alderman, and marble dealer. In 1878 it became part of Hurd's subdivision Plan 70, which he named the \"Village of Burlington\" plan, registered just five years after the incorporation of the village. After Hurd's death in 1905, this land was sold to John C. Smith and Maxwell C. Smith, who in 1906 registered their subdivision Plan 111. Their lands were then sold to J. Walter Gage, a Hamilton real estate dealer, who on 3 June 1908 registered his subdivision Plan 117, which he named \"Wellington Park\", as a tribute to the early founders of Wellington Square. The \"Wellington Park\" name also indicated Gage's aspirations to develop a garden suburb in the Arts and Crafts style, after the manner of the famous Bedford Park development in London, England. From 1900 to the 1920s, other well-known subdivisions in this style included \"Wychwood Park\" and \"Lawrence Park\" in Toronto, and \"Roseland Park\", just east of the Guelph Line boundary of Burlington. Harrison was Gage's Burilngton agent. The Wellington Park development survey coincided with the beginning of Harrison's second career, as a builder and developer, and the great expansion of his voluntary role as a booster of Burlington. A few weeks before Gage registered his \"Wellington Park\" development plan in June 1908, Harrison registered his own development plan, \"Hazelmere\", near the Grand Trunk Railway Burlington Junction. Even before the April 1 registration date, Harrison was selling lots. It was James Harrison, as much as any other resident, who promoted the growth of Burlington between the spring of 1908 and the autumn of 1912: the many houses built on lots that Harrison sold, as well as the houses built by his company, used Nicholson lumber and millwork, and in particular the pre-fabiricated windows which were Nicholson's specialty. By 3 November 1908, Harrison was advertising a\"solid, well-built brick house\" for rent or sale on Hurd Avenue, and by December 1 he had become part of a \"Burlington Advertising and Finance Committee\", promoting the town with the slogan \"Let Burlington Flourish\". The slogan is part of the large display ad he ran for \"Fine Building Lots in Wellington Park\" on February 9, 1910. This house, like Harrison's earlier Burlington house, was called Hazelmere or Haselmere. Its architect is unknown. In design and construction, its quality was second only to W. C. Flatt's Lakehurst Villa, also built in 1910, (demolished in 1990). In 1913 this property was sold to Frederick Skelton, a wealthy industrialist. The 11 June 1924 Gazette includes Skelton's obit: born in 1846 in Sheffield, England, he went to the United States in 1889 and was a superintendent and managing director of three tool companies before founding in 1904 Canadian Shovel and Tool, of which he was managing director unitl his death. In 1907 he established the Skelton Shovel Co of Dunkirk, N. Y., an American subsidiary. His first wife died in 1908. The Dictionary of Hamilton Biography, Vol. III, 1925 - 1939, p. 91, mentions Frederick Skelton as the cofounder, with William Arthur Holton (1863 - 1941), of Canadian Shovel and Tool, sold in 1906. Annie Gertrude De Witt (1874 - 1935) was a sister of Samena Rose De Witt, who married Alfred Brigham Coleman in 1905. According to their daughter Mary E. Coburn, Annie, who had trained as a nurse in Buffalo, married Frederick Skelton, a well-to-do widower, and they were living in Burlington by 1914. \"Uncle Fred\" collected English watercolours. He had two sons, Walter (W. E.) of Dunkirk, N. Y. and F. A. in Hamilton. The 28 February 1940 Gazette advertises the Haselmere Private Hospital at 63 Burlington Avenue. According to a former neighbour, this house was a private maternity home, run by a Mrs Begg. In 1940 the property was sold to Doris F. Giddings, a spinster, of the Giddings Furriers (Hamilton) family. She was the eldest of 7 Giddings siblings: Doris, Archie, George, Reg, Edna (an invalid), Bernice, and Irene. The restoration of the house was recognized by Heritage Award in 1999 and a new stone work front walk was honoured by a second Heritage Award in 2000. The property was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1992."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Chris Bryan"},{"label":"Date","value":"Aug-08"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:2008"},{"label":"Title","value":"534 Burlington Avenue, August 2008"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"534 Burlington Avenue, August 2008","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/e16c449e-b9a2-4f0a-a13f-321ca5e01a6d/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"534 Burlington Avenue, August 2008","height":1200,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/e16c449e-b9a2-4f0a-a13f-321ca5e01a6d/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/e16c449e-b9a2-4f0a-a13f-321ca5e01a6d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1200,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/e16c449e-b9a2-4f0a-a13f-321ca5e01a6d/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/e16c449e-b9a2-4f0a-a13f-321ca5e01a6d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/e16c449e-b9a2-4f0a-a13f-321ca5e01a6d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}