Ardmore Park, 186 Salina St. S, 1980s

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Image

Type d'élément

Photographs

Description

This house located at 186 Salina St. S. in the 1980s (the address is now Westover Street) has been the residence of several notable St. Marys residents throughout history. The house is a Regency style cottage built of limestone in the 1850s. The house was built by Joseph Osmond Hutton, a local mill owner and the builder of Westover Park. Edward Taylor Dartnell was the subsequent owner; Dartnell worked as a lawyer and was known for his Upper Canadian landscape paintings. Beginning in the 1860s and 50 years onward, the grounds of Ardmore Park, also locally known as the Hutton House, were used for Sunday School picnics, fundraising garden parties and other service club activities.

Other notable residents included local merchant John Walsh and Lex Wilson. Wilson was a well-known steeplechaser in the 1930s. Helen Mills Wilson, wife of Lex Wilson, was also an owner of the home. Helen was the first woman to serve on the St. Marys Town Council in 1948 and later would be elected as St. Marys's first female mayor in 1962.

This limestone home displays several features commonly seen on regency style buildings. Here you can see the French windows with their original frames and shutters and the elegantly styled brackets under the roof eaves. The photo also provides a view of how the grounds once looked, now changed greatly with time.

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 - Image is clear. No signs of damage to negative. Paper curled slightly.

Dimensions

Largeur: 3.6 cm
Hauteur: 2.3 cm

Dimensions d'image

Largeur d'image: 3.6cm
Hauteur d'image: 2.3cm

Sujet(s)

Architecture
Dwellings
Historical Houses

Nom(s) personnel

Hutton, Joseph Osmond ; Dartnell, Edward Taylor ; Walsh, John ; Wilson, Lex ; Wilson, Helen Mills.

Identifiant local

LP186SalinaS_a

Collection

St. Marys Museum Photo Collection

Langage de l'élément

English

Couverture géographique

St. Marys

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.25009 Longitude: -81.13304

Donneur

Larry Pfaff - on behalf of LACAC

Déclaration de droit d'auteur

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Citation recommandée

"Ardmore Park, 186 Salina St. S., 1980s", St. Marys Museum, LP186SalinaS_a

Emplacement d'original

R. Lorne Eedy Archives

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