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Three years before Erindale College opened in 1967, U of T acquired
the Artist’s Cottage, originally designated as the Schreiber-Watkins Cottage, when
it purchased the land around Lislehurst (the Principal’s residence). The name
“Artist’s Cottage” comes from the artist-in-residence program—David Blackwood,
the first UTM artist-in-residence (for whom the Blackwood Gallery is named) was
the first Erindale College employee to occupy the cottage, from 1969 to 1974. The
cottage was, until recently, lived in by Henry Halls, a professor of geology in the
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences. Now, the small building has become
a unique teaching space—a “crime scene house” run by UTM’s Forensic Science
program. Elementary, secondary and UTM students comb through the house and
its yard for clues to staged crimes: dusting for fingerprints, hunting for murder
weapons and searching for possible burial sites. For a tiny building, the Artist’s
Cottage is rich in UTM history.
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