Fairfield House

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted December, 2010

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted July, 2007

Plaque Location

The County of Lennox & Addington
The Township of Loyalist
On the south side of Highway 33
1 km east of Road 6, at street number 4574

Coordinates: N 44 12.976 W 76 39.300

Plaque Text

This is one of few eighteenth-century Loyalist residences remaining in Ontario. William and Abigail Fairfield were among the first Loyalists to settle this area after the American Revolution. They arrived in 1784 and probably completed this farmhouse by 1793. Its symmetrical style and timber-frame construction evoke the architecture of the family's native New England. Except for its verandahs and french windows, added by 1860, Fairfield House survives much as it was built. It offers rare evidence of building techniques and interior detailing from the Loyalist era. By 1959, when it was donated for public preservation, Fairfield House had been in the family for six generations.

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