Stewart Hall Traditional Cache

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svladcjelli: unfortunately I cannot keep this cache maintained. I hope someone else will hide here, it is a beautiful spot.

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Hidden : 9/13/2005
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Quick Info :

Small cache, Park closes at 11PM.

Petit cache. Fermee a 23:00.
Dedication:

This cache was placed during the 46th annual WIAIH Art Show http://wiaih.qc.ca.

Ce cache etait placee durant le 46ieme exposition d'art annuel de AOIHI http://aoihi.qc.ca.
While you are there:

La galerie d'art Stewart Hall Art Gallery

Centre culturel de Pointe-Claire Stewart Hall
176 chemin du Bord-du-Lac/Lakeshore Road
Pointe-Claire (Quebec)  H9S 4J7
Tel: (514) 630-1254 * Fax: (514) 630-1285
millarj@ville.pointe-claire.qc.ca

Hours:

Monday to Sunday 1 - 5 p.m.
Monday & Wednesday evenings 7 - 9 p.m.
Closed Saturdays in June, july and August
History and Information:
The site's initial concessions were granted to Jean Boileau dit Lariviere, for lot 161, and Franc,ois Guimot dit Lalonde, for lot 162.

The Knoll
The land was divided and parcels of lot 160 were acquired, primarily by the Legault family, and redistributed between 1885 and 1891 as a single property - "The Knoll." Thomas Avery Crane, of Crane & Baird Grain Exporters, built an imposing wooden country house by the edge of the lake and began farming north of Lakeshore Road. In 1901 the house and farm were sold to Hugh Andrew Allan, while part of the land was reserved for a tree farm, the Pointe Claire Nursery. Descended from a prominent Montreal family, Allan was instrumental in reorganizing the family business, the Allan Steamship Line Co.

Mull Hall
Charles Wesley MacLean acquired the property in 1911, reassembled the original parcels of land, and set up a model farm. In 1915 MacLean demolished the house and built a new one more suited to his social standing. Through his first marriage to the daughter of Senator Fulford, he became the heir to Fulford Place, the family home of the Fulfords of Brockville. MacLean ordered a larger, but less ornamented, copy of the house from architect Robert Findlay. A Scot, Robert Findlay came to Canada in 1885. From 1890 to 1930 he designed some 30 houses for the Montreal elite along the Golden Mile and in Westmount. Mull Hall was completed in 1916. Its name commemorated the ancestral home of the McLean clan on the Isle of Mull in Scotland.

mull hall
mull hall


The facade has a symmetrical design modified only by the colonnaded portico at the main entrance. A verandah in the same formal style surrounds the other sides of the building. The house is built of blocks of rusticated limestone purchased from local quarries. The hip roof was originally covered with cedar shingles, now replaced by sheets of ridged copper leaves.

In 1940 the Fathers of Sainte-Croix acquired the property for a noviciate and continued to farm. The sale of the property in the 1950s excluded the four-acres of the estate on which the mansion stands. These were bought by May Beatrice Stewart, who sold them for thesymbolic amount of $1.00 to the city of Pointe-Claire. The mansion was restored in 1962 by architectural firm of Papineau-Gerin-Lajoie-Leblanc. The official opening of Stewart Hall was held on February 16, 1963.

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