Collings
12-24-2004, 04:24 PM
“You are quite right..the new house at 991 is wonderful...imagine my surprise when I saw it instead of the log house I grew up in...and the house across pandora where the Mattinsons lived has really been nicely upgraded....I chatted with the fellow who lives there when I drove through the area last summer...
The log house had started off as one wing of the old Hamilton Fort..which was built prior to the war of 1812...It was moved by teams of horses, a trip which took 6 weeks around 1918, to the location on the Beach Strip where it was turned into a gentlemans club..hence the Moose above the front door..My parents bought it around 1960, enclosed the porch and rented out the 2 apartments...We lived there until 1970...”
Collings, I find this really interesting. I have several questions.
(1) Where was the old Hamilton fort located
(2) ? was the log house moved to the beach by the owners of the gentlemans club?
(3) Did the gentlemens club own the log house and the land where it was located on the beach?
If it did, it would be interesting to resurch land records to find the name of the gentlemens club.
Finally, I have a hard time believing that a log building built before 1812, would have survived in to the 1970s. if it did, it must have undergone a lot of restoration.
scotto
10-28-2013, 08:42 PM
“Like many of the houses on the Beach, they were demolished by the City and the lot left vacant for many years, so the current owners would not of been in the picture when the log house was removed.”
Scott, why ddid the city remove houses just to leave the land vacant?
It would be interesting to know exactly when the house was torn down. And then to find out if at that time there was a local historical board. And if there was, if it had any objection to the distruction.
And if the house was drawn across the harbour rather than around it, why did it take six weeks?
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