The Asa Wolverton House

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 18, 2004

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 18, 2004

Plaque Location

The County of Brant
In Paris, on the east side of Grand River Street South, south of the bridge, across from Burnell Street

Plaque Text

This house and the adjoining structure were built by Asa Wolverton, a native of Cayuga County, New York, who had immigrated to Upper Canada in 1826. About 1832 he settled in Paris, where he erected sawmills and became a prosperous lumber dealer and contractor. Wolverton acquired this site in 1851 and soon constructed an outstanding residence of stuccoed frame. Designed in a classical manner, the house is distinguished by the entrance portico and the attached storage-wing with its carriage-house. This alignment of structures, often employed in the New England States and the Maritimes, was rarely used in this province and is here adapted to a steeply sloping site. Wolverton resided in the house until his death in 1861.