| Upload Date: | Wed Oct 15 19:58:21 2003 | | Image Size: | 580 x 435 (113k) | | Description: | [ Plaque / Provincial Level ]
ELDON HOUSE
Built in 1834 by Capt. John Harris, R.N., treasurer of the London District, this is London's oldest remaining house. With his wife Amelia, daughter of Samuel Ryerse, Harris came to London after the District Offices were moved here from Vittoria. For many years Eldon House was a centre of London's cultural and social life, and four generations of the Harris family dwelt in it during more than 125 years. In 1960 the family gave the house with most of its furnishings and eleven acres of land to the City of London for a museum and park.
Erected by the Archaelogical and Historic Sites Board, Archives of Ontario. | | Location: | 481 Ridout St. N., London. |
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