{"id":10800,"date":"2014-11-22T17:39:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?p=10800"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:17","slug":"exhibition-view-origins-significance-residential-gothic-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2014\/exhibition-view-origins-significance-residential-gothic-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition on view: The Origins and Significance of Residential Gothic in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Exhibition on view: The Origins and Significance of Residential Gothic in Ottawa\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Exhibition on view in Department of History, 4th floor, Paterson Hall, October 2014-April 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1850s the prospect of a design competition for Ottawa\u2019s Parliament Buildings drew English architects to the new city. Like Parliament and Ottawa\u2019s Gothic churches, which this exhibit also explores, their Gothic residential commissions helped transform a frontier lumber town into a colonial capital, identifying Canada and Ottawa as progressive partners in the British Empire. These mostly stone villas shared both fashionable Tudor ornament and a revolutionary \u2018pinwheel\u2019 floor plan, in which four wings revolve outward from a central stair hall.&nbsp;Architectural historian Timothy Brittain-Catlin has recently traced this plan to A.W.N. Pugin, the father of the English Gothic revival. Though&nbsp;Earnscliffe, the best known, was later home to prime minister John A. Macdonald, the houses were built for leading Ottawa merchants, industrialists and professionals. Among them were three members of the Pinhey connection, who had built a Gothic-influenced church on their rural estate in the 1820s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition on view in Department of History, 4th floor, Paterson Hall, October 2014-April 2015 In the late 1850s the prospect of a design competition for Ottawa\u2019s Parliament Buildings drew English architects to the new city. 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