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Bostwick House, Port Stanley
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1933
- Accession Number
- 2007-19
- Storage Location
- C4 Sh5 B9 F1 12
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2007-19
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C4 Sh5 B9 F1 12
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1933
- Series
- Elgin Historical Society fonds - Photographs series
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm
- 3 photographic negatives
- Scope and Content
- The Bostwick House, Port Stanley, ca. 1933. Photograph was taken by Reverend Canon Norman Morris in circa 1933.
This building is included in the Municipality of Central Elgin's Register of Heritage Properties under the Ontario Heritage Act (https://www.centralelgin.org/en/recreation-and-culture/Heritage/Heritage-Properties-March-3-2022.pdf). The listing states the following:
"Bostwick House, 216 Cornell Drive, Port Stanley, PLAN 177 LOT 40 R O W ,By-law 435. Description: The Bostwick house was erected in 1827. The property was owned by Colonel John Bostwick and passed to his son Joseph in 1849. The house was originally framed like a barn using one foot square oak beams pinned in place with wooden pegs. Within the framing, strawberry handmade clay bricks were laid, a treatment called brick nogging. There is only one other house in Ontario which is known to display this form of construction".
- Name Access
- Morris, Rev. Canon Norman
- Elgin Historical Society
- Subject Access
- Homesteads
- Buildings
- Website / Street View Notes
- Link directs to a more recent view of this image.
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