GAG9 - Maplelawn Micro Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/20/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache has been placed for GAG 9. Please do not access this cache until after 6:00 pm Oct. 20, 2006. Any logs entered before then will be deleted.

Sometime around 1818, William Thomson, a retired British soldier of Scottish origin, settled a 200 acre farm on the road between Bytown and the village of Richmond. While mainly a farmer by trade, Thomson and his sons did invest in the local lumber trade.

The building at Maplelawn was built between 1831 and 1834. The property was sold to Thomas Cole, a local lumber baron. Although the Federal District Commission (forerunner of the NCC) purchased the property in the 1950ès to preserve the house, the property remained in the possession of the Rochester family (as Frances Rochester was a granddaughter of Thomas Cole) until 1989. Since 1999, Maplelawn has been the location of the Keg manor restaurant.

The architecture of the house reflects a taste for British classicism, but some elements, such as the windows, are in a more local style, favoured in Quebec and the Ottawa Valley. The walled garden is a very rare feature for a Canadian farming estate. Although highly prized in Europe, they were never wide spread in Canada.

In 1989, Maplelawn was designated a national historic site by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada because of: “…the quality of the house, but more particularly because its gardens are the best preserved of the few known surviving examples of early 19th century walled gardens in Canada…” As an ensemble, the house and remaining walled garden provide a clear record of the way European architectural and landscape ideas were transplanted to Canada.

The rectangular garden is roughly one acre (4,047 m2) in size and is enclosed by rough-dressed limestone walls on three sides. The garden has four-square plan of flower beds, with an oval bed at the centre.

Photographs taken in the late 19th century show fruit tress, shrubs and leafy arbours in the garden. At the centre of the beds were tender fruits and vegetables with peonies, oriental poppies and other ornamentals planted around the edges.

In 1936, the Rochester hired R. Warren Oliver, a horticulturist at the Central experimental Farm, to renew the garden. While the general plan of the garden was retained, the fruit and vegetable gardens were turned to lawn.

Within the garden, the classical symmetry of layout, as well as the spacing, colour orchestration and varieties of plants, provide beauty, fragrance, repose and seclusion.

There is plenty of on-street parking nearby.

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