257 Thomas St., 1980s

Description

Médias

Image

Type d'élément

Photographs

Description

This one-storey red brick home was built in the late 1880s for Margaret Aiken Humphris, a widow who lived there with her children including her son Joseph Humphris. Joseph Humphris was a local architect and carpenter who owned a planing mill and helped design several homes and buildings in St. Marys including the Carnegie Library.

The house features accent brick headers above the windows and front door along with lighter brick quoins running down the sides of the house. Decorative brackets are under the roof eaves. The recessed front door is highlighted by a transom window and sidelights. This building is an example of the Regency style with its symmetrical plan, large windows and hipped roof. Additions have been added to the back of the building and the shutters and lantern have been removed but the home retains many of its original features.

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 - Image is clear. No signs of damage to the negative.

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

Humphris, Margaret Aiken ; Humphris, Joseph.

Identifiant local

LP257Thomas_a

Collection

St. Marys Museum Photo Collection

Langage de l'élément

English

Couverture géographique

257 Thomas Street, St. Marys, ON:
St. Marys

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2529539693341 Longitude: -81.1486504564667

Donneur

Larry Pfaff - on behalf of LACAC.

Déclaration de droit d'auteur

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Citation recommandée

"257 Thomas St., 1980s", St. Marys Museum, LP257Thomas_a.

Emplacement d'original

R. Lorne Eedy Archives

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