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Park House

Park House is a National Historic Site of Canada in Amherstburg, Ontario.

Ontario · 214 Dalhousie Street, Amherstburg, Ontario · location approximate

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PARK HOUSE This 18th-century house is a rare example of a once-common building type, with its French-framed poteaux-en-coulisse (grooved post) construction, asymmetrical design, and centre-passage plan. Its original waterfront location in a transborder region of southwestern Ontario made this combined home and warehouse a strategic base for traders and merchants, including the Park brothers. This house, owned for many years by the Park family, is thought to have been floated down the Detroit River to Upper Canada by Loyalists after Britain ceded Detroit in 1796. The house was moved again in 1972 and converted to a museum on this site.

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LA MAISON PARK Rare exemple d’architecture jadis répandue, cette demeure du XVIIIe siècle se distingue par sa charpente de type français à poteaux-en-coulisse, sa conception asymétrique et son couloir central. Sise au bord de l’eau dans une région transfrontalière du sud-ouest ontarien, la maison et son entrepôt offrent une base stratégique aux commerçants et aux marchands, y compris les frères Park. Leur famille est longtemps propriétaire du bâtiment, qui, dit-on, fut transporté jusqu’au Haut-Canada sur la rivière Détroit par des loyalistes après la cession de Détroit par l’Angleterre, en 1796. La maison est déplacée ici en 1972 et convertie en musée.

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This plaque text is recorded in the Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, published by Parks Canada for the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Plaque texts come from the Directory’s open dataset in the languages the Directory publishes them in; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the Directory’s street address or local area and marked approximate. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
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