{"id":13347,"date":"2012-09-06T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=13347"},"modified":"2018-09-13T06:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:45:48","slug":"ceperley-houseburnaby-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/09\/06\/ceperley-houseburnaby-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceperley House\/Burnaby Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13369\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13369\" title=\"BAG_600\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/BAG_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Ceperley and her family in front of the Ceperley House.\u00a0 Image courtesy of City of Burnaby Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8305\" title=\"EveryPlace_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/EveryPlace_logo-600x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/EveryPlace_logo-600x72.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/EveryPlace_logo-1024x122.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/EveryPlace_logo.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love this photo of Grace Ceperley and her family taken a century ago. I went out to Burnaby recently to take a comparison shot of the house.<\/p>\n<p>When it was built in 1911 it cost $150,000 and was the largest house in Burnaby, sitting on 20 acres of land, 10 of which was landscaped. A story in the local newspaper described it as a palatial home \u201cwith its fine lawns, terraces, rockeries with <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/b-and-d-rockeries-marysville\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #333;\">Marysville retaining wall<\/span><\/, greenhouses, pumping station for irrigation. Lodge stables and outbuildings.\u201d\n\nMany of the original buildings have been demolished, but the stables, root house and steam plant is still there. So is the chauffeur\u2019s cottage, but it\u2019s unclear who actually occupied it. Mr. Muttit, the English chauffeur, told the Ceperley\u2019s that, as a socialist, he would not live a \u201cfeudal life\u201d on the estate.\n\n<!--more-->While Henry Ceperley owned a successful real estate and insurance business, it was Grace who bought the land and built \u201cFairacres\u201d as a retirement home. Grace used money she inherited from her brother-in-law A.G. Ferguson (the same Ferguson of Ferguson Point in Stanley Park). The condition was that after her death she would leave a chunk of money to go to the improvement of Stanley Park.<\/p>\n<p>She did just that when she died in 1917 at age 54. She had carefully earmarked $13,000 in her will and specific instructions to fund a children\u2019s playground. The playground, still called Ceperley Park in Grace\u2019s honour, is by Second Beach in Stanley Park, but little of the original fixtures remain. At the time it was one of the largest in Canada, filled with giant slides, ladders and seesaws, a sandbox, wading pool, bridge canal, and track and field facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Fairacres sold to Frederick Buscombe one-time Mayor of Vancouver in 1922, and future owners included a group of Benedictine monks from Oregon, and the Temple of the More Abundant Life. The cult was shortlived when it transpired that its leader, Archbishop John had fled the US as a convicted bigamist with a string of extortion and wife-beating charges.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Burnaby bought the estate in 1966. It survived as a frat house for SFU students for a couple of years and is now the home of the Burnaby Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13370\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13370\" title=\"ceperley-house_600\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/ceperley-house_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ceperley House now &#8211; currently the Burnaby Art Gallery. Photo courtesy of Eve Lazarus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eve Lazarus<\/strong> is a writer with a passion for history and heritage houses. She is the author of At Home with History: the secrets of Greater Vancouver&#8217;s Heritage Houses, a member of the North Vancouver District Heritage Commission, and blogs obsessively about buildings and their genealogies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.evelazarus.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.blog.evelazarus.com<\/a>. Her next book \u201cSensational Victoria\u201d with house stories of Victoria\u2019s murders, ghosts, brothels, artists and sea captains (not necessarily in that order) will be published in November.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this photo of Grace Ceperley and her family taken a century ago. I went out to Burnaby recently to take a comparison shot of the house. 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