Barnum House
Text from the plaque
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.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The County of Northumberland
The Township of Alnwick/Haldimand
On the north side of Road 2 at Barnum House Road
at street number 10568, 1.7 km west of Grafton
N 43 59.453 W 78 02.610
Recorded November 2010. Check current access before visiting.