Guest House, Emily St., 1980s
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This house, once located on the Thames River off of Emily Street, was built for local politician T.B. Guest. The house was demolished in the 1980s, shortly after this photograph was taken. Guest was elected the first Mayor of St. Marys in 1864. This large brick home was built for he and his family in 1873. In later years the house came to be known as the residence of the Gilpin family.
The house featured many stylistic elements popular in the mid 19th century. The house had two-storey bay windows with ornate brackets under the roof eaves. The windows were tall and arched. The porches on the house included Greco-inspired columns with Gothic-Revival brackets. The brackets had a cut-out design that is often seen on the tracery in church windows. The roof peaks were adorned with painted, ornate bargeboard.
In the winter and early spring of 1982-1983, Randall Speller, a colleague of Larry Pfaff from the Art Gallery of Ontario, took a series of black and white photographs of houses of architectural significance in St. Marys. Larry Pfaff and several local friends who shared this interest in architecture took some additional photographs in a subsequent summer. This photograph is one of this series.
*To see additional photographs related to this image click on the "detail" link under the image. - Notes
- Condition: Excellent - Image is very clear. No signs of damage to the negative.
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.6 cm
Height: 2.3 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 3.6cm
Image Height: 2.3cm
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Guest, T.B., Gilpin.
- Local identifier
- LPGuest_g
- Collection
- St. Marys Museum Photo Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.25009 Longitude: -81.13304
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- Donor
- Larry Pfaff - on behalf of LACAC.
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- "Guest House, Emily St., 1980s", St. Marys Museum, LPGuest_g.
- Location of Original
- R. Lorne Eedy Archives
- Terms of Use
- Reproduction of digital objects is restricted to fair use for personal research or study; any other use must be done with permission of copyright holder.
- Reproduction Notes
- This image is a watermarked low resolution reproduction. High resolution images are available at the St. Marys Museum for a fee.
- Contact
- St. Marys MuseumEmail:museum@town.stmarys.on.ca
Website:
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P.O. Box 998,
St. Marys, Ontario.
N4X 1B6
