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Brant House Hotel, 1877
Description
- Creator:
- Rolph Smith & Co, Toronto, Illustrator
- Media Type:
- Image
- Item Type:
- Prints
- Description:
- Birds-eye view, from the south, of the Brant House summer resort hotel, its outbuildings and grounds. Guests enjoying recreational activities: boats, swings, croquet and horse-drawn carriages. In the right foreground, an engine of the Hamilton & Northwestern Railway Line, and in the middle distance, a train running west on the Grand Trunk Railway Line.
- Notes:
- The Joseph Brant house was purchased in 1875 from his grandson Simcoe Kerr by J. Morris of Hamilton, who converted the property into a summer resort. By 1880, it was owned by the McKillop Brothers. It was rebuilt by A. B. Coleman in 1892.
- Inscriptions:
- Printed below the illustration: "The Brant House Burlington, a beautiful summer resort & European hotel situated on one of the choicest sites overlooking Burlington Bay & Lake Ontario. J. Morris, Pror./ Rolph, Smith & Co Toronto, Ont,"
- Publisher:
- Dorothy Turcotte, The Sand Strip: Burlington / Hamilton Beaches (1987), page 8. Claire Emery Machan, From Pathway to Skyway Revisited (1997). page 39.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto: Walker & Miles
- Date of Original:
- 1877
- Dimensions:
- 26 x 19 cm
- Image Dimensions:
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Image Width: 544px
Image Height: 760px
- Subject(s):
- Local identifier:
- 30436s.jpg
- Collection:
- Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Halton, Ont.
- Language of Item:
- English
- Geographic Coverage:
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Latitude: 43.316997572642215
Longitude: -79.80279922485352
- Copyright Statement:
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact:
Burlington Historical Society
Email:
WWW address:
Agency street/mail address: 1450 Headon Road
P.O. Box 93164
Burlington, ON L7M 4A3
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