Fort Edmonton in Black and White. The Big House

This is a replica of the house that John Rowand built. John Rowand was the Chief Factor of Fort Edmonton, meaning he was in charge of all of the territory from The Rocky Mountains to Winnipeg.
There were people who said that he built this house as large as he did to match his big ego. John Rowand lived here with his wife and three daughters. They also had a couple of live in servants.
The lowest level was the servants quarters. The main floor included dining rooms and offices as well as a large hall. The second floor had sitting rooms, bedroom and four guest rooms. The top floor was used for storage

[Kerri]

Great b&w

[De]

This looks so good in black and white. Thank you for the wonderful commentary!

[KWind]

Feels so vintage! What a large home!

[❀ Lynn]

The Factor was a very important person! That's a big house!

[Maggiemae]

It is big and quite a plain design but very practical for the territory! Interesting to see it has been replicated!

[pauline briges]

love it

[Raye]

Excellent! Wonderful composition, perfect in b&w!

[Tony]

Magnificent capture of that majestic structure, must have been an enormous effort to build the original

[Shirley Chetwynd]

Fantastic looking building.

[Graham Thresher]

A brilliant capture of a fantastic building.

[Harry J Benson]

nice processing and presentation

[Claire]

Impressive; the b&w certainly suits it

[mervyn hobbs]

What's it look like in colour.

[Andrew Nelson]

Very impressive building.

[Carl Dry]

Beautiful B&W

[Nancy]

Great B&W...love this! Fav

[Yorkie]

Really interesting. Its great in black and white.

[Shirley Banford]

Wow! It's huge! Great shot.

[Mike Pittman]

Great capture and treatment!

[Fisher Family]

Very interesting building, and I like the B&W - Lucy

[Terry]

menacing looking

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Fascinating looking building with interesting architecture. It does look huge and I would love to have that much storage.

[Ivan]

Wonderful shot and building, fascinating history, thank you.

[ZambianLass]

Lovely

[Tineke]

Great B&W, thank you for the story, it is Always fun to know the story of a building

[Janet Shaffer]

Very nice.

[John]

Wonderful shot

[Pyrrhula]

A beautiful vintage capture of this interesting house. Thanks for the info .

[Katie]

Wow, what a huge place!

[Paula W]

What an interesting history this old building has, thank you for sharing it and your wonderful b&w pic.

[Molly]

Really interesting building and thanks for the background information. Like the b&w.

[Jennifer C]

fabulous image and information!

[Karin Hirsch]

Fantastic historical building

[Anne ❀]

interesting info and image!

[Mrs. Smith]

What an interesiting building. It would be fun to explore it. Did you get to go inside?

[Ann H. LeFevre]

That really looks like a large home even for this day and age! But I guess it did double-duty being that Mr. Rowand was in government as well. Great shot!

[bkb in the city]

@thresheg Thanks Graham

[bkb in the city]

@hjbenson Thank you Harry

[bkb in the city]

@claireuk We thought it would be interesting to shoot these in b/w

[bkb in the city]

@carwyn3 Well since it was made of logs it has that kind of brown colour to it

[bkb in the city]

@andyn It is quite impressive inside as well

[bkb in the city]

@carldry111 Thanks Carl

[bkb in the city]

@nanderson Glad you enjoyed this one Nancy and thanks for the fav

[bkb in the city]

@yorkie I thought it would be interesting to shoot in b/w or this

[bkb in the city]

@sabanford Thanks Shirley

[bkb in the city]

@c17ehse Thanks Mike

[bkb in the city]

@fishers Glad you like it Lucy

[bkb in the city]

@sarasdadandmom Definitely stands out

[bkb in the city]

@mittens It has a huge amount of storage for sure

[bkb in the city]

@ivan You're welcome

[bkb in the city]

@tstb Glad to share it with you

[bkb in the city]

@janets Thanks Janet

[bkb in the city]

@johnnyfrs Thanks John

[bkb in the city]

@pyrrhula You're welcome

[bkb in the city]

@archaeofrog It is an incredible house

[bkb in the city]

@paulaw Glad to share it

[bkb in the city]

@dolphin Glad you like this one

[bkb in the city]

@jenrobcarr Thanks Jen

[bkb in the city]

@khirsch It really is a wonderful house

[bkb in the city]

@sunnygreenwood Glad you like it

[bkb in the city]

@mrssmith203 Yes that is one of the things I love about this park that you get to go inside the buildings and they have people in them to interact with the visitors. I also took a lot of pics. I do not know if you are on facebook. If you are you can look us up and see a lot more pics. We are listed as Melody-Brian Bigam

[bkb in the city]

@olivetreeann Thanks Ann. It is true that it did double as a place for government functions

[bkb in the city]

@kerristephens Thanks Kerri

[bkb in the city]

@degarvey Glad to share the info with you. Thanks for stopping by

[bkb in the city]

@kwind It really is a huge home

[bkb in the city]

@lynnb It did serve for government functions as well

[bkb in the city]

@maggiemae It is a very good replica as well

[bkb in the city]

@photo_mum Glad you enjoyed this one

[bkb in the city]

@sunraye I thought it would look good in b/w

[bkb in the city]

@tonydebont It would definitely been a huge undertaking for sure

[bkb in the city]

@http365proj It is even more fascinating inside

[Ellen E]

Impressive shot. looks great in b/w

[Alice Burghart]

Very nice historical shot in BW. Following

[summerfield]

huge house for just a family of 5. must've been a really big ego that he had to match. very nice processing. wonderful shot.

[Gerry]

great Pov

[bkb in the city]

@ellen Thanks Ellen

[bkb in the city]

@libertylady I thought a b/w series would be fun to do in this old park

[bkb in the city]

@summerfield Thanks Vikki

[bkb in the city]

@gerry Glad you like this one Gerry

[Diane]

Fascinating building and description of it. Again, the B&W really suits these buildings. This one has a really frontier feeling to it.

[bkb in the city]

@eudora It is an incredible building inside as well

[Nada A.]

Great subject for a b&w.

[bkb in the city]

@nadaa It was so much fun doing this b/w series