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i Landmarks receive riscogriition By Terry James When T. Allan Sage decid- ed to become an artist there was no turning back. At the Artist Allan Sage at work on a Watercolor painting. His representational and abstract works will be shown at the Watertoo Public Library next month. l By Mickey Leblanc On a wet Wethesday aftemooh last week. a small group of people gathered outside an old red brick house on Central Street to witness the designation of the structure as an historical landmark. -iiTiiiaiariit mine is important to the history of Waterloo for its connection with the, Evangelical Atr, sociation in the city during the "PI'. _ " T Samuel Bhrkholder purchased theland at , Central Street (then Church Street) and started construction on March 2, 1849. For unknown reasons he did not im- mediately reveal his plans for the structure until after the walls had been raised. Burkholder then asked the Waterloo congregation to finfsh the building' and if they did they would not have to pay for the use. The congregation used the building until 1871 when a new church was erected on the corner of Water ,and Cedar Streets. - - "in: heathen completed the building and fumished it with pulpit and seats, giving the Waterloo congrega- tion its first regplar meeting-place. _ The present owners of the house, Mr. and Mrs. Mel Burkhardt have been living in the home since their marriage in August, 1941 and have been constantly making repairs. Mr. Burkhardt is planning to make extensive repairs to the foundatiqn where cracks in the brick wall are causing it to sag, and curve. "It's just an old house," said Mrs. Burkhardt. "We never thought of this kind of thing:", __ VGeorgianvand Gothic features of the house are the architectural attractions of the building. The doorway has a seven-paned straight transom over it and is flanked by a three-paned side light. The door itself contains six small panes of glass in its upper half. Later the same day a second house was designated as being of historical and architectural importance. The Hilliard house, located at 88 William Street West, is set far off the street and is _surmunded by large trees and bushes. It is a significant building be- cause its builder Thomas Hilliard, contributed to the history of Waterloo. -iiie"two storey brick building was constructed in 1880 and remained in the Hilliard family for so years. Thomas Hilliard was instrumental in forming the Dominion Life Assurance Company which opened in 1889. He sold the stocks that were necessary to finan- ce the company", helped pass the charter throdgh Par- Representational works form show age of 55 he sold his pro- sperous architecture firm, his jaguar and cashed in his memberships to numerous Hilliard and Burkhardt homes golf and curling clubs. In their place he purchased a home in Kitchener and bought a van. Now, when "i,iU1/iiriivs he was publisher and editor of the Wa- terloo Chmniele's forerunner the "Berlin Chronicle" and “Wilerloo County Reformer: Gazetle':. _ J liamatt.attd helped organize the company. He was ap- potheq managing dirgctor of. Dominion Lift. / "ii"r'Giiiiriri7ririirGiviid with the first County Board of Examiners as a secretary where he worked for 30 years. - -- _ -iiirs." Betty Recchia', present owner of the house, ttaii been living there for the hat four years. She bought the house from Victor Stanton who made major t Mr. and Mrs. Mel Burkhardt have lived in their historic home since they were married in August 1941. They bought it from his father and have been making small repairs to their home every yoan For three years Mr. Sage has devoted himself entirely to his representational and abstract forms of art. Some 4% these will be on display at the Waterloo Public Library from Oct. 28 to Nov. 8. The exhibition includes over 50 landscape paintings in wa- tercolour, oil and acrylics he's not busy painting in his Gallarno Court studio, he and his wife are camping so mewhere in Canada and Mr. Sage is photographing and sketching in preparation for another few months work, Turning to art profes- sionally has been his ambi- tion since his high school graduation. From the time he was live years old Mr, Sage has been drawing. When aeroplanes were "the big thing," he and his friends would spend hours sketching them. But study- ing art was something that had to wait When. as a young man, he approached his father on the subject, the parenCs answer was “no way *m “My father was a depres- sion type and he believed you should have a, sound oc- cupation.” saiid Mr. Sage With an ability In mathe- matics and drawing, Mr Sage turned towards archr tecture It was here that he learned the fundamentals of art. Color theory. design and the history of art were part of his course requirements in kiln-[103 Chronicle. My, October 24, 1919 . The artist recalls purchas- ing a set of watercolors and two brushes (then $30 each) and being told to go out for 10 days and paint scenes around the Hyde Park area of Toronto. Later painting excursions took him to the Dorset Survey Camp, in- troducing him to the natural beauty of Northern Ontario For 26 years Mr. Sage practised architecture and his desire to become a pro- fessional painter strength- ened He wanted to be much more than what he refers to as a "Sunday painter ., While he realised that no ar- tist makes a great deal of money. he felt that at least he would be doing what he wanted to do. When his children were no longer dependent on him. he and his wife made a decision that changed their lifestyle completely, If he really wanted to do something they saw no advantage to waiting until his retirement He might as well get started right away pairs because there was a lot of damage. "A lot aiming: can happen in 100 years," Mrs. Rec- chia said. The Hiili r ouse is a large building and has a number o featu include a curved porch and squared sts amuse secon level which are separat by iron railings. The front entrance has two sets of doors and each set has two leaves. The upper halves of all four leaves have rounded headed pane of glass and the lower leaves are panelled. That was three years ago, Today Mr, Sage proudly takes visitors through his home pointing out his repre- sentational and abstract works “I want to communicate to people through my work.“ said Mr Sage “I want to say here's what I see, do you see it too" Mr. Sage has experiment- ed with water colors, acry- lics, and oils. He finds acry- lics the most versatile me- dium and says "it just may be the right medium for everything." While most of his " terloo showing will be made up of representational works (because he feels this is what people in the Twin Cities prefer) he will in- clude a few abstracts Mr, Sage and his wife used to plan their lives ahead of time Today they are thank- ful for good health and live one day at a time. "All my life we planned things ahead of time. We always had to make chan- ges. The end result was a feeling of ttrt- derachievement." he said. Becoming famous is not something the artist has planned on, “I started out too late in life for that." he says With a sly grin he adds ."But then again Picasso started paint- mg when he was in his 50's and he reached fame In his 701s or M's This IS the second time Mr Sage has exhibited his works at the Waterloo Ll- brary He has held Similar showings m Kingston. Bra- rebridge. Hamilton, Rich- mond Hill and Toronto