Erland Lee Museum
| Erland Lee (Museum), National Historic Site of Canada | |
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 Lieu patrimonial du Canada |
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| Recognized since | 2002 |
| Type | National Historic Site |
| ID | 9357 |
| place | Hamilton (Ontario) |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 8 '24 " N , 80 ° 0' 36" W |
| Recognized by | Government of Canada |
| Approved by | Historic Sites and Monuments Act |
| Entry Canadian List of Monuments | |
The Erland Lee Museum (officially: Erland Lee (Museum) Home ) is a listed residential building in Hamilton in the Canadian province of Ontario . The building was erected at the beginning of the 19th century. The house was inhabited by Abram Lee, as well as Janet and the namesake Erland Lee, who are associated with the rural women movement.
history
The house was built as a log cabin in 1808 and expanded and structurally modified by Abram Lee in 1860 and 1873. In 1897, Janet Chisholme Lee (wife of Erland Lee, son of Abram Lee) founded the Canadian Women's Institutes . As the location of the Mother Institute, the house has become a symbol of the rural women movement in Canada.
Today it is a museum in memory of the foundation of the women's institute. A renovation gave it back its appearance from around 1890. In 1995 the house was listed as a National Monument by the Province of Ontario, and in 2003 it was listed as a National Historic Site of Canada .
Construction and equipment
The house has one and a half floors and a rectangular floor plan. The facade is divided into three parts facing the street. The double-leaf entrance door is located exactly in the middle under a protruding canopy. In 1860 a cellar with a cistern was created.
The house is made of wood in the neo-Gothic style. This style is evident in the acute-angled gables , painted wooden facades with floor and cover panels and wood ornamentation on the supporting beams ("confectioners ornament") - for example, the verge is decorated with a carved ornament garland made of stylized maple leaves. The house has green areas and gardens.
Inside, the typical elements of a log house can be found, which was converted into a comfortable middle-class house at the end of the 19th century. The layout plan corresponds to the status of 1870. In addition to the main house, other outbuildings from the 19th century and a barn built around 1870 have been preserved in their original state.
Web links
- Website of the Erland Lee Museum (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Erland Lee (Museum) , 552 Ridge Road, Hamilton, Ontario, L8J, Canada . On the National Historic Site of Canada website . (Accessed January 2018)
- ↑ John Goddard: Inside Hamilton's Museums . Dundurn Press, Toronto 2016, ISBN 978-1-45973-354-1 . (Chapter Erland Lee Museum )
- ↑ a b Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Minutes, June 2002.