From Planning Department Files:
Brantford Expositor article, November 11, 1870
Residence of H.W. BRETHOUR, 88 Brant Avenue
"We next come to the mansion of H.W. Brethour. This elegant private residence was completed during the past year at
a cost of $7.000. It is of the Italian style of architecture, and was designed by John Turner, William Watt being the
builder. In this mansion are sixteen rooms, all fitted out and designed with a special eye to comfort and elegance. Gas
and hot and cold water are supplied to
all the rooms. The building is heated with hot air from a furnace from Cowherds. The London Glass Works Company
supply elegant stained glass windows. We understand Mr. Thomas Noble, is Agent for the Ontario Stained Glass
Works in Brantford, and is prepared to fit up private residences with stained glass windows, in the best style and at very
reasonable prices. If our reporter was a
poet, which he is not, he could contentedly resign himself to the charge of this establishment, drinking in day after day
inspiration from the, beautiful landscape obtainable from the southern balconies. We cannot linger, but notice in
passing a neat frame cottage erected for Mr. Thompson, gardner for Mr. Brethour. This cottage is situated to the south
of the mansion, and was built by
William Watt at a cost of $500.”
HENRY BRETHOUR
1870: built his home at 88 Brant Avenue.
Information from City Directories
1883-86:
Dry Goods Business: 80,81, 82 Colborne Street
1888:
Dry Goods business: 94 Colborne Street
1893-94:
Dry Goods business: 94 Colborne Street
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