Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
From Huntsville Heritage Collection, Muskoka Digital Archives.
Photo of the Fleming Scott Gilchrist House at 22 Hanes Street, Huntsville, Ont., circa 1933.
Morley College was on this site from 1896, when it was built, until 1899, when it was destroyed by fire. In 1901, the property was sold to John Thomas Fleming, a stonemason from Sinclair Township. He designed and built the present stone house at 22 Hanes Street overlooking the Muskoka River.
In 1907, the property was sold to Mary Jane Clarke, a widow, for $1450. She took in boarders. In 1914, the house was sold to William Scott from Eramosa, who taught at the Huntsville Public School from 1917-1929. He grew vegetables, kept chickens, sold eggs, and had horses in a barn behind the house. In 1931, the property was sold to Jack and Evelyn Gilchrist. In 1940, the upstairs was made into an apartment. Evelyn Gilchrist was the granddaughter of Andrew Tait of Orillia, who organized the Heath, Tait and Turnbull Lumber Company in 1886. In 1892, this firm became the Huntsville Lumber Company with Andrew Tait as President.
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