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  • THE HOME

    Brant’s original Burlington home was built in the late 1790s and was designed in the style of Johnson Hall, now a National Historic Site in New York State’s Mohawk Valley. Johnson Hall was the home of Sir William Johnson, Brant’s military commander and the person responsible for Brant’s extended education at Moor’s Indian Charity School. As the design of Brant’s Burlington home suggests, Johnson remained a significant figure throughout Brant’s life.

There are no photographs or plans of the original Brant home in Burlington. But, thanks to a contemporary painting of Brant’s home and Sir William Johnson’s property, we have an idea of what it looked like during his residence.

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  • Image Credit: Mwanner, Wikipedia

    JOHNSON HALL

    Brant’s house was closely modelled after Johnson Hall, the home of his friend and mentor, Sir William Johnson.

  • Image Credit: Joseph Brant Museum collection, X2003.28.1

    THE BRANT HOUSE

    Depiction of Brant’s house as it appeared in 1804 by Dr. E. Walsh, 49th Regiment.

  • Image Credit: Joseph Brant Museum collection, 1957.130

    BRANT HOUSE STOVE

    Although Joseph Brant’s original Burlington home was demolished, the Museums of Burlington are fortunate to hold some objects from that building’s history.

     

    This includes a woodstove that was used in the house. Built in Lower Canada’s (now Quebec) St. Maurice Forges, its manufacture date corresponds to the time when Joseph Brant’s children, John and Elizabeth, may have been living in the home.