page_title: Fulford Place
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Fulford Place / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Formal Italianate garden at Fulford Place. It was designed by the Olmsted Brothers, and is located on the west side of the property. It has been fully restored by the OHT, and includes statues of Eve (left) and Adam, as well as a fountain with Tritons.
context_page_description: Fulford Place is a historic mansion in Brockville, Ontario. It was completed in 1901 for Senator George Taylor Fulford, a Canadian businessman and politician. The home is now a historic house museum reflecting Edwardian era decorations, and it is operated by the Ontario Heritage Trust. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1992.
context_section_description: After purchasing a patent for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in 1890 and making a fortune selling the pills, the Fulfords had a mansion built for them in Brockville, on the shore of the St. Lawrence River where several other beautiful estates were located, many of which were owned by other successful business people. In 1898, the Fulfords commissioned their estate to be built on the King’s Highway, on the eastern edge of Brockville. Architect Albert W. Fuller from Albany, New York, designed Fulford Place, and it was elaborately decorated in the Beaux-Arts style. It was built between 1899 and 1901, and had 35 rooms making up 20,000 square feet.
  Since Fulford was an important figure in both the political world and the business scene, entertaining was one of Fulford Place’s primary functions. The house thus contains a grand hall, a dining room to seat over thirty guests, a spacious veranda, and a rococo-style drawing room for the ladies. A Moorish-style smoking room was adjacent to a billiard room for the gentlemen.
  Notably, the grounds at Fulford Place were designed by the Olmsted Brothers, and the recently restored formal Italianate garden is a rare and important example of a privately owned Olmsted-designed garden.
  The property was reduced to three of its original 10 acres (40,000 m²) when George Taylor Fulford II was forced to section off prime lots of real estate to sell in order to afford the maintenance of the house. He remained proprietor of Fulford Place until his death, when he bequeathed it to the Ontario Heritage Foundation (now Ontario Heritage Trust). All of its original contents were later donated by his widow and his son, George Taylor Fulford III.
caption: The Italianate garden, designed by the Olmsted Brothers
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