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PHOTOlog | port town ELGIN

Port Stanley, Ontario, Greek Revival, cornice returns

Greek Revival Thomson House c. 1842, 232 Colborne St. W, Port Stanley. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, June 2015

ELGIN County | Southwold Township

PHOTOlog | Quaker presence ELGIN

Sparta, Ontario, historical, Quaker, church

Sparta Quaker Meeting House, 1824. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, June 2015

ELGIN County | Yarmouth Township

PHOTOlog | a victorian compromise MIDDLESEX

Victorian yellow-brick homes in Mossley, Ontario

Gingerbread trim in Mossley, a community, which by 1864 needed a better name than ‘The Corners’, finally settling on a combination of two local surnames – the Mossips and the Lees. Photo credit: Lisa Rance June 2015

MIDDLESEX County | Dorchester North Township

PHOTOlog | rural town MIDDLESEX

downtown Lucan, Ontario

Lucan downtown. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, June 2015

MIDDLESEX County | Biddulph Township

PHOTOlog | living history MIDDLESEX

oldest continually operating water-powered flour mill, Ontario, Canada

Arva Flouring Mill, established 1819 on what was then Martin’s Creek in a community known as St. John’s., north of London. Photo credit: Lisa Rance June 2015

farmhouse older than the rest, near London, Ontario

Red brick house with NeoClassical door with sidelights, Prospect Hill Road. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, June 2015

MIDDLESEX County | London Township

PHOTOlog | relief brickwork DUFFERIN

Marsville, Ontario, historical, fancy brick detail

Brick designs in Marsville: variations in colour and texture. More beautiful relief work in the area. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, June 2015

DUFFERIN County | Garafraxa East Township

PHOTOlog | bypass the bypass ONTARIO

historic country church, Ontario, Canada, residential conversion

When a parkway/highway is built to curve around a small town in rural Ontario, sometimes one misses a bright corner of the world. Brakes were built to be used. Manchester Primitive Methodist Church, 1866. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, May 2015

Another bright spot in a iffy-weather day in Manchester.  Photo credit: Lisa Rance, May 2015

Another bright spot on an iffy-weather day in Manchester. History all around, but this was shiny! Photo credit: Lisa Rance, May 2015

ONTARIO County | Reach Township

PHOTOlog | rubble stone walls ONTARIO

rubble stonemasonry, Beaverton, Ontario

One of the oldest buildings in Beaverton, 305 Simcoe Street was originally the miller’s house. Rubble stone wall construction with 12 over 12 windows. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, May 2015

ONTARIO County | Thorah Township

PHOTOlog | log house cobblestone hearth ONTARIO

log house, cobblestone chimney, moved to pioneer museum, Ontario, Canada

The homestead of Mara’s first settler, Patrick Corrigan | An 1850’s log house, originally in Mara, now moved to the Beaver River Museum in Beaverton. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, Feb 2017 and May 2015

ONTARIO County | Mara Township

PHOTOlog | victorian lady VICTORIA

victorian architecture, ontario, canada

150 year old Victorian lady at 63 Regent St. in Lindsay. Elegant with its brick quoining and ornate verandah, built 1870. Photo credit: Lisa Rance – May 2015

VICTORIA County | Ops Township