Archive

A structured catalogue of drawings, photographs, correspondence, and related materials assembled from six source collections — hosted on Wikibase and openly queryable through SPARQL and a JSON API. 147 items spanning 1970 — 2020.

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The Hunter House Archive is maintained as a Wikibase graph — items, properties, and statements stored in the open-source structured-data platform that underlies Wikidata. This site reads from it directly.

Collections

The archive draws from six collections of varied provenance — two institutional, four held by individuals connected to Hunter's life and practice.

HHCHunter House Collection

Hunter's own working files, retained at the residence — drawings from 1979 onward, surveys, engineering documents, ephemera. The primary collection.

110 itemsHunter House Foundation

CAACanadian Architectural Archives

Richard Hunter fonds, accession 2019.61 — 344 drawings, 62 photographs, 0.22 linear metres of textual records spanning 1955 — 2010. Donated by Hunter in 2019 and 2021.

18 itemsUniversity of Calgary

FULJohn Fulker Collection

Professional photographs of the Hunter Residence by Victoria photographer John Fulker, documenting the original structure prior to subsequent additions.

9 itemsWest Vancouver Museum

GESEric Gesinger Collection

Hunter's furniture drawings, gifted to the cabinetmaker who produced the chairs for the 2018 Dining Room Addition.

[pending]Eric Gesinger

FRHFrances Hunter Collection

Personal materials, correspondence, and photographs retained by Frances Hunter following Richard Hunter's death in 2023.

[pending]Frances Hunter

IHCIvan Hunter Collection

Family photographs of the Hunter Residence, captured 2024-02-11 by Hunter's son Ivan.

45 itemsIvan Hunter

Vocabulary

Items are classified by type, by use, by built status, and by the project set they belong to. Areas of the house are tagged from a hierarchical vocabulary of thirty-five terms. The same item may appear in multiple indexes — locatable by date, area, phase, drawing type, or project set.

Drawing types

ElevationPlanSectionDetailPencil studyColoured studyFraming plan

Areas

East WingWest WingTowerSkywalkStudioKitchenDiningEntry GardenKotatsu

Phase / status

Design DevelopmentConstructionPermitBuiltPartially builtUnbuiltRemoved

Platform

The archive is hosted on Wikibase, the open-source structured-data platform that underlies Wikidata. Items, properties, and statements are stored as a graph and queried via SPARQL or a JSON API. The Foundation maintains its instance at hunterhouse.wikibase.cloud; this site reads from it directly.

Image files are released under a Public — Hunter House Foundation license unless an individual item carries different rights metadata. Researchers wishing to consult high-resolution master files or unpublished collections should contact the project lead.

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