Whitehern

Whitehern

Whitehern in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, built shortly before 1850, is a Late Classical house that is now a historic house museum.

At one time, Whitehern was the home of Thomas McQuesten. His historic downtown family home was willed to the City of Hamilton, after the death of the last of his five unmarried siblings in 1968. It is situated on the corner of Jackson Street West and MacNab Street South, just east of the Hamilton City Hall and behind the Canadian Football Hall of Fame museum. After its restoration was complete in 1971, "Whitehern" has been open as a civic museum and has occasionally served as a period film location. cite web| title =Whitehern Museum Archives: An Online History of the McQuesten Family| url=http://www.whitehern.ca/| accessdate = 2007-03-23]

Among the many Hamilton civic leaders and boosters, McQuesten helped encourage McMaster University to relocate from downtown Toronto to west Hamilton in 1930. cite book|title=Dictionary of Hamilton Biography (Vol III, 1925-1939)|first=Thomas Melville |last=Bailey|publisher=W.L. Griffin Ltd|year=1992]


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External links

* [http://www.city.hamilton.on.ca/culture-and-rec/MUSEUMS/whitehern/default.asp Whitehern] family homestead and museum
* [http://collections.ic.gc.ca/hamilton/whiteher.htm Whitehern] historical
* [http://www.whitehern.ca/index.php Whitehern] archives


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