Amherst Island Old Houses

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Reid House
This is the house of William Reid and Agnes Sinclair
that was built on Amherst Island.William's grandson
George Davy is in the foreground.
Submitted by Maureen Deacon

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Thanks to Lee for these 2 photos!
DENEE HOME
The first photo is the front and the second is the back and the garage or carriage house.
"Both homes are from my families on Amherst Island. Antoine Denee
the owner of the house in this attachment was my GGG grandfather,
he married 1. Catherine Asselstine daughter of Petrus Esselstine and
Christina Davy, 2. Rosanna McMullin the daughter of Alexander McMullin
and Jane Houston. Antoine Denee lived in this beautiful home with
his second wife Rosanna.

Thomas Denee the son of Antoine Denee and Catherine Asselstine
married Jane McMullin, the sister of Rosanna McMullin, his father's
second wife and also the daughter of Alexander McMullin and Jane Houston."

2003: "To get to the house I turned right at the stop sign in Stella
and took that road all the way out to the end. The house is
at the end of this road. The house looks out onto Prince Edward Co.
You can see this houe from Loyalist Highway. I dove out to Picton
after leaving Amherst Island and spotted it on the way out."
Photo and info from Lee Dennie-Riggio

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McMullin Home
"The home is that of the McMullin family.
I believe the home was built by Aneas McMullin.
This home is also located in Con 1 on the way to the former Denee."
Photo and info from Lee Dennie-Riggio

Glenn house from Historical Atlas

Glenn House Recent
"I noticed you have a section on your site for images of homes from the island, and you have the McMullen House (it is now owned by McMullens, relatives of mine, though it was originally owned by Denees (also relatives of mine - such is life in a small community, eh?)). I thought that I would send you a picture of my grandparents' home on the island - which may at first seem inconsequential by itself... however, you also have a link to the 1878 L&A Atlas which includes a picture of a home from Amherst Island - they are one and the same.

The house was, I believe, originally built by Alexander Glenn, and in fact there's a corner-stone (though it's actually a basement step) that is engraved with mostly unreadable lettering, but clearly the intent was to denote the date the house was built.

My grand'rents bought the house about 42 years ago for 3600$. It was forfeited to the owner of the General Store for non-payment of a grocery bill, if you can imagine. My grandparents paid the oh, so lofty sum of 60$ per month as a mortgage. Though my grandfather was only making a dollar an hour at that time and so saving up 60$ per month was quite a challenge at times.

The small sapling trees that are in along the road in the older picture are now more than fifty-feet tall and their trunks are broad enough to take three men hand-in-hand to wrap themselves around. The large tree in the background is still standing, it is about half way between the house and a barn that is not in the pictures, the "big tree" is more than fourteen feet around the trunk.

The two smaller buildings shown in the pictures are no longer standing, though one of them may have been moved to behind the house were there is now a garage. The "new" picture that I'm sending you is actually a little out of date; I'm sending it on purpose, though because I think that it is a better picture than the newer ones.

Since that picture has been taken the deck has been removed from the front of the house and a "sun-room" was built across most of the front, obscuring the front door and the left-most window. There is also an addition that was build onto the back of the house which extends the kitchen. My grandparents had six children who got married and went out and had nine grandchildren. Being a close island family as we are when we gathered together for family dinners we took up entirely too much space and so a larger kitchen was needed!

The property to the east was originally owned by Samuel McGinn, my father's father's father's brother. It is now owned by my uncle, as is the home east of it, and again the home east of it. Four in a row. Like I said, we're a close family."

Thanks to Chirstyn McGinn for photos and info!

The Islands: Amherst Island Old Houses