Cobourg is a town in Southern Ontario ninety-five kilometers (59 miles) east
of Toronto and 62 kilometers (39 miles) east of Oshawa. It is located along
Highway 401. To the south, Cobourg borders Lake Ontario.
155 Durham Street – verge board trim on gable181 Bagot Street – built by Hugh Harper in the 1870s – barge board and finial in the gable, sidelights and transom, pediment supported by porch pillars163 Bagot Street – Gothic – iron cresting above bay window121 Bagot Street – Gothic Revival106 Bagot Street – c. 1850 – This Greek Revival cottage was built by William H. Floyd. Constructed of brick, it has simple clean lines, with good returning eaves and a plain cornice. The off-center doorway is a unique example of the extent to which the Greek Revival could go in elaborate detail.93 Bagot Street – Neo-Colonial – gambrel roof990 Ontario Street – The Mill Restaurant – In 1836, Asa Burnham, a Cobourg pioneer, sold his property at Elgin and Ontario Streets to Ebenezer Perry, a United Empire Loyalist, a veteran of the War of 1812. Perry’s Mill was constructed of stone; it was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt of brick in the 1850s with some stone work around the entrance. In 1870, Mr. Poe added a plaster mill which required schooner loads of stone to be brought in for grinding. He also continued to run the flouring mill. By 1889 the Pratt family owned the mill and continued there until 1986. Alexander Pratt owned a flour and seed store in Cobourg and leased the flour mills in Baltimore. His interests in the mill began in May 1883 when the Cobourg Flour Milling Company was converting the old grindstone mill into the more efficient device known as the roller mill.181 Ontario Street – 1844 – second story added later – truncated hip roof, front French door with sidelights163 Ontario Street – 1843 – built by one of the four Burnet brothers – front porch added in 1862 – the ornamented entablature of the porch is supported by two large square pillars and an elaborate frieze with a central crest at the top.120 Ontario Street – stone110 Ontario Street – 1878 – “Illahee Lodge†– Italianate – built by John Jeffrey, hardware merchant – bay windows, front porch crowned with intricate wrought iron railing173 Tremaine Street – “Mount Fortune” 1844 – This Greek Revival home at one time served as an officers’ mess for the Cobourg Cavalry Regiment. The porch treillage and molded brick cornice are note-worthy. It was owned in the 1860s by James Fortune, one-time sheriff of the District.202 Green Street – Hatfield Hall – 1879 – High Victorian Gothic – It was built by retired Civil War Colonel Chambliss, Managing Director of the Cobourg and Marmora Railway and Mining Company. His heiress wife, Sallie, was the daughter of George K. Schoenberger who largely financed the railroad company. In 1890, Colonel Douglass Cornell of Buffalo bought the house for a summer residence and called it Hadfield Hurst (Hadfield was his wife’s maiden name). From 1929 to 1951, it was a girls’ private school, Hatfield Hall, named after the house where the future Queen Elizabeth I was confined by her sister Queen Mary I. The windows all have transom lights at the top. On the west facade is a third-floor balcony covered with a hip roof and gable with decorative fretwork.
