196 Widder St. E., 1980s

Description

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

This house located at 196 Widder Street East was built in 1873 by Scottish carpenters James Craig and James Hamilton for Craig and his family. Craig was a co-owner of the Craig and Hamilton Planing Mill in St. Marys once located at the corner of Water Street North and Parkview Drive. The planing mill produced sashes and doors. The carpentry firm was awarded contracts for work on the St. Marys Collegiate Institute, the first Knox Presbyterian Church and the Opera House.

The original clapboard house consisted of the front section, seen in this photo, and a one-storey kitchen wing. The second-storey of the wing along with the veranda were likely added by Michael Tevlin, another carpenter who owned the house from c. 1875 to 1917. This house has been historically designated; the designation includes the looping bargeboard, the veranda and its fretwork frills, and the double-hung sash windows. Other notable features on the house include the double-window dormer and window shutters. While the house has been painted different colours over the years, it retains many of its original features to this day.

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.

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
Dwellings
Historical Houses

Personal Name(s)

Craig, James ; Hamilton, James ; Telvin, Michael.

Local identifier

LP196WidderE_a

Collection

St. Marys Museum Photo Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

196 Widder Street East, St. Marys, Ontario:
St. Marys

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2628029639774 Longitude: -81.1404911766434

Donor

Larry Pfaff - on behalf of LACAC.

Copyright Statement

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Recommended Citation

"196 Widder St. E., 1980s", St. Marys Museum, LP196WidderE_a.

Location of Original

R. Lorne Eedy Archives

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