topic:"Architecture" found 24 records - Research Collections

Okanagan Lake

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Artist: (Sir) William Cornelius Van Horne (1843 – 1915, Canadian)

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: VhW.02.01

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Artist: (Sir) William Cornelius Van Horne (1843 – 1915, Canadian)

Title: Okanagan Lake

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 43.5 x 75 cm

Subject: landscape, lake; architecture, rural

Credit: Gift of Esso Resources Ltd., 1980

Catalogue Number: VhW.02.01

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Castle Mountain Siding

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Artist: C. Zollern

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour; photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: ZoC.13.01

Description: Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in i…

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Artist: C. Zollern

Title: Castle Mountain Siding

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour; photograph on paper

Dimensions: 34.8 x 47.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in it on the right. On both sides of the river are trees and in the distance are mountains. Sky fills the top. The lower two pictures are photographs. The left is of the first Banff Springs Hotel and Rundle Mountain. The right is looking down the main street of Banff in 1895.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rura;

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974

Catalogue Number: ZoC.13.01

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Stone Tower

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Artist: W. S. Painter (1877 – 1957, Canadian)

Date: 1895

Medium: black ink on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: PaW.03.04

Description: Stone tower in center of picture, four arched windows show in tower. The tower is part of a lower building, rectangular windows on the left side, two large arched doorways on right side of building.

Artist: W. S. Painter (1877 – 1957, Canadian)

Title: Stone Tower

Date: 1895

Medium: black ink on heavy paper

Dimensions: 34.1 x 19.1 cm

Description: Stone tower in center of picture, four arched windows show in tower. The tower is part of a lower building, rectangular windows on the left side, two large arched doorways on right side of building.

Subject: architecture; tower; W.S. Painter

Credit: Gift of W. (family) Painter, 1975

Catalogue Number: PaW.03.04

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Log House

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Date: 1895

Material: wood; glass; stone; fibre; concrete; metal

Catalogue Number: 101.01.0007

Description: Log cabin with peaked red shingled roof, whitewashed, with green trim on eavestroughs, window sills and porch roof supports. Small green ship's wheel conceals the bathroom vent, bathroom is late addition, c. 1930 constructed from wooden planks of varying widths. Roof possibly reshingled at time of …

Title: Log House

Date: 1895

Material: wood; glass; stone; fibre; concrete; metal

Dimensions: 445.7 x 622.5 cm

Description: Log cabin with peaked red shingled roof, whitewashed, with green trim on eavestroughs, window sills and porch roof supports. Small green ship's wheel conceals the bathroom vent, bathroom is late addition, c. 1930 constructed from wooden planks of varying widths. Roof possibly reshingled at time of addition. False roof S.E. side was likely added at time of bathroom construction. Corners of log portion are dovetailed. Cabin faces S.W. two windows on N.W. side (85.0 x 65.0 & 85.0 x 70.). Bathroom window on south side (60 x 32.5 cm). Chinking between logs is oakum faced with concrete. Electrical conduit on back, N.W. side and gas conduit on N.E. side added in 1970s for John Morse when he used cabin as a woodworking shop. Both lines are connected to the Whyte house. Two chimneys, one encased in brick at N.E. end, the other in metal on N.W. side. Cabin/sits on concrete plinth probably dating from 1972. All base logs have been replaced by stonework c.1975.