GEORGIAN STYLE

In his textbook titled "Ontario Architecture: A Guide to Styles and Building Terms: 1784 to the Present," Southampton resident John Blumenson writes that Georgian Style “is characterized by uncluttered designs based on adherence to conventional rules of symmetry and proportion. House facades are formally arranged with an equal balance of parts (doors and windows) on either side of a central motif (the frontispiece or entrance) and accentuated with a select distribution of Classical embellishments, including roof and window cornices."

The style was brought to Ontario by settlers from Great Britain as well as United Empire Loyalists from the USA. "Given the varied backgrounds of these settlers, what they built often imparted vernacular methods of construction reflecting their origins, skills and when possible their personal aesthetics" (p. 5).

Top, right: 84 Carlisle St — The Bull's Head Hotel/Tavern (also known as Denny's Inn) built in 1866;

Left: 357 Alice St (1864), built by pioneer settler and Reeve of Southampton, Thomas Adair;

Left: 370 Alice St (built 1868) by Crown Lands Agent Alexander McNabb, an outstanding pioneer settler who conducted the "Great Land Sale of 1854";

54 Breadalbane St South. Built in 1875, of buff brick masonry, by John P. Tully, yeoman.

268 Spence St. Built in 1874 by Alexander Kennedy, blacksmith, and later owned by A.E. Belcher;

79 Albert St N, Pre-Confederation house (1865) former Anglican Rectory, once the home of famous poet William Wilfrid Campbell (1860-1918), and also former home of G.C. Huston (school named after him).