Duncan McFarlane House - Digital Archive

The Digital Archive and complementary Interactive Heritage Register Map are initiatives to provide historical information regarding properties included on the Township’s Heritage Register. The Digital Archive only includes properties which have consented to include their heritage property on this archive.

The lands we know today as the Township of Puslinch have been home to
Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. We acknowledge that we are on the
traditional territory of the Hatiwendaronk, as well as the treaty lands and traditional
territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.

With increasing encroachment by non-Indigenous settlers in the Township of Puslinch, the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee could not continue their traditional lifestyle and settled in their villages along the Credit River and in the Grand River Valley. These Indigenous nations uphold their Treaty Rights within our jurisdiction.

Today, the Township of Puslinch remains home to Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. We are grateful to have the opportunity to share and respect Mother Earth and are committed to building constructive and cooperative relationships with Indigenous nations.

Duncan McFarlane House

7751 Maltby Road E. Concession 10, Lot 16 Puslinch, ON
Photo of Duncan McFarlane House

Biographical Info

The Duncan McFarlane House was built in 1870. Duncan McFarlane Sr. had a fieldstone and granite farmhouse built in a Georgian style, commissioning Peter Hume as the stonemason on the project. Hume used stones from the farm as well as huge limestone slabs from Georgetown to construct the farmhouse’s quoins and lintels. The Duncan McFarlane House, has 3-bays, Edinburgh coursing, and H-patterned connectors, which means there are two smaller stones set vertically beside a larger one.

McFarlane’s descendants owned the property for many generations. As of 2000, the house has had replacement windows to complement the colour of the re-pointed fieldstone.

The McFarlane House is associated with the early political and commercial history of Puslinch and Aberfoyle.

 

Duncan McFarlane House - Exterior

Duncan McFarlane Barn

Categories: Decade Built – 1870s, Decade Plaqued – 2000s, Georgian/Neoclassical Style, Historical Association – Scottish/Scotland, Materials – Stone, Two-and-a-half storeys