Barnum House

There are two plaques at this location.
Both can be seen on this page.

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted November, 2010

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted December, 2010

Plaque Location

The County of Northumberland
The Township of Alnwick/Haldimand
On the north side of Road 2 at Barnum House Road
1.7 km west of Grafton

Coordinates: N 43 59.453 W 78 02.610

Plaque Text

A superb example of a prosperous Upper Canada home, this elegant classical building was erected about 1819. Though its interior has been modified several times since, the façade remains essentially unaltered. In the first historic house restoration undertaken in the province, the structure was refurbished by the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario in 1940. Since 1982 its continued preservation has been entrusted to the Ontario Heritage Foundation.

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted November, 2010

Plaque Text

Built ca. 1820 for Colonel Eliakim Barnum, an American emigrant, this timber-framed home is recognized as an outstanding example of Neoclassic domestic architecture in Canada. While retaining a Palladian composition of centre block and wings, the house expresses the Neoclassical mode in the temple facade of the principal building, the dominant pediment and the smooth wall surfaces relieved by blind arcading. The pedimented, pilastered door, the enriched cornices and the tympanum fan are Neoclassic decorative motifs executed here with a delicacy and linearity peculiar to wood.

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Posted January 8, 2009
I wish Barnum Brown was still alive.

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