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welcome to Emily Carr house I’m Jan Ross

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the resident curator here at Carr house

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and we would love you to come sometimes

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you actually see what Emily’s house is

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all about Emily’s father had this house

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built in 1863 on what was then four

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acres of land it was out a good ways

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from the city and was really a farm at

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that point in time in that he planted a

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huge vegetable garden a big barn was at

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the back there were wild lily fields

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beyond that Emily tells us about in her

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writings this was a loving and caring

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home for Emily as she grew up but it was

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certainly a strict one Emily had no

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doubt a great deal of tension sometimes

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with her sisters and with her father in

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particular but she loved growing up here

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in Carr house as Emily tells us in her

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book of small when she was a little girl

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she would walk hand in hand down what

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became car Street with her father as he

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was on his way to work down on Wharf

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Street after waving goodbye to him she’d

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rushed back up the stairs to the house

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opened the front door

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take a peek in the hallway and see if

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her mother was in the dining room the

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dining room at Carr House is very

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special it also is the first studio that

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Emily painted in when she came back from

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studying art in San Francisco after

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dinner the ladies would withdraw from

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the dining room and come into the

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drawing room or parlor a beautifully

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appointed room at the front of the house

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we have a special room that houses

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artifacts things that have made their

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way back to the house that once belonged

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to the family we call this our people’s

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gallery in honor of Emily we have a

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sitting room where the father would read

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the Bible and where we now show

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information and have an archives on

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Emily and her childhood the house itself

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has been restored to the period when the

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family lived here as a family from the

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1860s to the turn-of-the-century we have

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very carefully restored the wallpaper

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the woodwork the paint colors but you’re

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not stepping back exactly into the time

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that Emily lived here the furnishings

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are not original to the house but what

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we’re hoping you will find when you come

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to Emily’s how

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is an interpretive center for her life

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her art and her writings

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