Westover, 300 Thomas St., 1980s

Description

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

This house, now known as Westover, was built in 1867 for retired mill owner William Veal Hutton and his brother Joseph O. Hutton. The limestone house was designed by locally renowned architect Robert Barbour. In the 1870s, a two-storey addition was erected on the south side of the house. A tea house was also later added to the property in the 1880s. A kitchen addition was eventually erected to the west side of the building and in 1911 a carriage house was constructed on the property designed by J.A. Humphris. The building once had a grand conservatory which was eventually demolished.

The estate was known for its elaborate gardens and the park was open for the public to walk through. The house has many notable deign features including the elegant bargeboard along the gables, the large monolithic stone lintels above the windows, the substantial bay windows on the lower level and the gothic-inspired wrought iron railing featured above one of the bays. In 1987 the house was opened to the public as Westover Inn.

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.

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Notes

Condition: Excellent - No signs of damage to the negative.

Dimensions

Width: 3.6 cm
Height: 2.3 cm

Image Dimensions

Image Width: 3.6cm
Image Height: 2.3cm

Subject(s)

Architecture
Hotels
Dwellings
Historical Houses

Personal Name(s)

Hutton, William Veal ; Hutton, Joseph O. ; Barbour, Robert ; Humphris, J.A.

Local identifier

LP300Thomas_k

Collection

St. Marys Museum Photo Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

300 Thomas Street, St. Marys, Ontario:
St. Marys

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2525280942877 Longitude: -81.1504421720886

Donor

Larry Pfaff - on behalf of LACAC.

Copyright Statement

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Recommended Citation

"Westover, 300 Thomas St., 1980s", St. Marys Museum, LP300Thomas_k.

Location of Original

R. Lorne Eedy Archives

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