#18 King Street South, Oakland, Ontario, 2010:
The Westbrook House Building Components, Lion's Park, Oakland Ontario:
Taking inventory of wood components of the Westbrook House, while temporarily stored at the pavilion in the Lions Park, Oakland, March 9th 2010.
(Photo by D. Atkins)
#126 King Street Burford, Burford Post Office, 2010:
The Post Office building, built in a Public Works Vernacular style (post Edwardian) was in need of several fix-ups and restoration. I was very pleased when in 2010/2011, the Federal agency in charge of the work contacted me to get my input and advice of heritage colour and choice of material for the reconstruction of the front steps. Though the corner stone (date stone) reads “1914, the construction of this building commenced in 1915 and it was completed in 1916.
(Photo 2011 by C. Barker)
#195 King Street, Burford, Ontario, 2015:
Documented what was probably the oldest remaining building in the village of Burford, prior to it being demolished in 2015 (opposite #200 King Street). It was the west wing of what was the former Fritzley family residence. The larger portion, on the east side of it was constructed some time between 1835 and 1848, as a General Store and Cobbler's shop (shoe maker/repair shop) and was attached to the older structure by 20" wood dowels.
This portion of the building that was removed, had a very important place in the evolution of the Township being one of the earliest commercial buildings in Burford Township, constructed about 1815 by John Fowler Jr., as the replacement Inn to his first Inn (built 1802) destroyed by the raiding American force, November 5th, 1814. Though this portion of the building looks too small to have been an Inn, it was the standard footprint size for many frame buildings at that time, 16' x 24' because it was quick to erect.