Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
House at 4 Fairy Avenue, Huntsville, Ontario. Walter Johns stands in front of the doorway. The year is 1975.
This photo was donated by David Johns to the Huntsville Public Library. The house, built in 1901, is said to have been wood framed, 900 square feet, with a poured cement foundation. It was built in a very wet and swampy area, and the basement would sometimes flood even with a sump pump running. It was poorly insulated, so the snow on the roof never had to be shovelled; it melted quickly, and giant icicles would form.
Owned by Ran Jupp in 1939, the house was heated mainly by wood and had a massive cast iron furnace taking up all of the basement. It also had a cook stove in the rear kitchen. Walter and Edna Johns rented the house from 1944 to the late 1980s. That’s when the house and the garage beside it were demolished to make way for a mini-mall. M&M Meats was the first store to open on May 11th, 1990.
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