231 Thomas St., 1980s

Description

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

This clapboard one-storey home was built in 1884 by George Whiles. Whiles purchased the property in 1879 and he and his son Luke William Whiles, a carpenter by trade, constructed the house together. After its completion Luke W. Whiles lived in the home with his wife Ann Harrison. In 1924, Whiles had his daughter Eva live in the home as a tenant after the passing of his wife. Eva would later gain possession of the house after her father's death. Ownership of the house passed through several other families including Eliza and Joseph A. Dickey in 1943, Grant and Joyce Cookson in 1964 and five other families up to the current day.

The house features double front doors inset with Italianate inspired round-arched windows. A stained glass transom window is above the front doors and the doors are set into a Neo-Classical door surround that works cohesively with the trim around the windows. The house has retained many of its original features, including those listed above. However, an addition has been added to the back of the house and it has been painted a darker colour in recent years.

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. Several minute scratches to surface of negative, barely visible. No other signs of damage.

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)

Whiles, George ; Whiles, Luke W. ; Harrison, Ann ; Whiles, Eva ; Dickey, Eliza ; Dickey, Joseph A. ; Cookson, Grant ; Cookson, Joyce.

Local identifier

LP231Thomas_a

Collection

St. Marys Museum Photo Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

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

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2535517522193 Longitude: -81.1480764637375

Donor

Larry Pfaff - on behalf of LACAC.

Copyright Statement

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Recommended Citation

"231 Thomas St., 1980s", St. Marys Museum, LP231Thomas_a.

Location of Original

R. Lorne Eedy Archives

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