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Murdoch & Kenneth Munroe 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.
Murdoch & Kenneth Munroe House
Biographical Info
The Murdoch and Kenneth Munroe House was built around 1860. The one-and-a-half storey fieldstone store was constructed with soldier lintels above the doors and windows, large stone quoins, a non-gabled roof and a simple entrance door. The non-gabled roof and simple entrance architecture indicates 1860s construction. Later additions include a single storey west wing, a Gothic window gable above the front entrance, and a sympathetic log cabin addition on the northern side.
In 1842, Rosshire-born blacksmiths Murdoch Munroe and his brother Kenneth purchased Lot 26 from John McPherson. The Munroe brothers operated a blacksmith shop on the north edge of the property, across from the Henry Becker family store. The Munroes had lived in a log house east of the present stone farmhouse.
The property is historically associated with Scottish immigration and the history of Crieff.
Categories: Decade Built – 1860s, Decade Plaqued – 2000s, Historical Association – Scottish/Scotland, Materials – Stone, One-and-a-half storeys, Ontario House Style