The Mansion (later: Barber) Hotel in York along the Grand River, built 1862, features an upper level Grand Ballroom. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, September 2015
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The Folmar windmill, built in 1990, the only operating wind-driven saw mill in North America. Modelled on an existing windmill, The Arend, in Holland. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2013
Main Street, village of Bayfield, established 1832. The still-operating Albion Hotel and commercial building now the Black Dog Pub, both built before 1850. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October, 2013
Old Meadowvale Village: The Commercial Hotel, built by Matthew Laidlaw in 1852. Has been subdivided into apartments and was for sale in 2011 for 1.2M. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, February 2013
Worker’s Cottages, now a private family residence. Visited Old Meadowvale Village on a walking tour led by Matthew Wilkinson of Mississauga Heritage. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, February 2013
The Fryvogel Tavern, constructed 1844 in the NeoClassical style, by the county’s first settler Sebastian Fryfogel, to replace an earlier log tavern placed by the Canada Company on the Huron Colonization Road. The five-acre site is being restored as a community centre, arboretum and Swiss-German Four Square Heritage Garden (Fryvogel was Swiss). Address: 1931 ON-7, Perth East, ON. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, August 2011
Proctor Hotel, 15098 Hwy 2, between Brighton and Colborne, in operation as early as 1810, serving travelers on the Danforth Road between Kingston and York. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2011
The Butler “Mansion” 211 Prince Edward St., Brighton, was built by a relative late-comer, William Butler of New Hampshire, in 1849. After his land lots in the village were sold en masse, he welcomed the townspeople to a feast held at the home. These days, it seems rather less accessible, even to view! Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2011
Pepper’s Inn, 10830 Hwy 2, was one of six taverns operating in Grafton between 1815 and 1845. Mr. Pepper’s creative and numerous toasts included: – to ‘King and Constitution’, the ‘Land o’Lakes that we live in’, and ‘May nae war be among us’. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2011
The Steele House 10715 Hwy 2, Grafton, was used as a school and community gathering place for meetings too genteel for a tavern. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2011