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44 High Street
This Victorian-era home has undergone a significant transformation since it was featured in the Christmas Home Tour several years ago.
It is now a multi-generational home, with the next generation and their young family living in one half of the home and the main family residence taking up the other half of this large century home. The owners have added a large family room to this home, in keeping with the proportions of this Victorian beauty!
With thanks to Heritage Home Partner Kyan Culture for generous support!
Decorator: Sophie Turgeon & Maryse Beauchamp-Lizotte
Specialty Vendor #1: The Rustic Pantry – Offering breakfast sandwiches & coffee in the morning.
Serving chili with cornbread for lunch and during the afternoon. They will also bring their selection of frozen meals to take home!
Specialty Vendor #2: Avondale Orchard – Apple Hill, South Glengarry
What you will find at their booth: They process their harvests in their certified kitchen and produce all of these delicious items: garlic-based spices,jams, syrups, and vinegars made from their berries and country-style lamb pâté. They also create an assortment of crafts.
About Avondale Orchard: A human-scale farm, the Avondale Orchard is part of a sustainable agriculture model, thanks to the application of permaculture and organic principles. Dany and Véronique, the owners, have planted an orchard of unconventional fruit trees, hardy fruit trees and berries, in addition to growing garlic and raising a small flock of sheep on pasture.
House History
In 1886, this home was built with brotherly love. Local carpenter & joiner Malcolm McInnes, with his brother John McInnes, a wealthy builder in Colorado – combined their talents to build this home for their youngest brother Alex McInnes, a blacksmith in Vankleek Hill.
The building is a two-storey single-brick balloon frame house. The appearance provides a stately Victorian expression of combined home and place of business. The original design format, still in use, presents the formal public front entrance extending outward to the sidewalk and street. The side porch portico, which is set back from the sidewalk, provides the private or family entrance.
The large overhanging flat-roof, fascia, and robust brackets make a statement as the building anchors the two streets it faces (High and Mill streets) each with a bay window expressed on the ground floor. The porches are graced by brackets that offer good examples of gingerbread.
House Histories Research & Editing by Michelle Landriault