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McIntyre Hotel Circa 1800
Title: McIntyre Hotel Circa 1800 194 Main Street Dutton, Ontario, Canada N0L 1J0 1-519-762-2862 |
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| The McIntyre Hotel – circa 1900 This is main street Dutton in the early 1900’s with it’s wooden boardwalk, mud streets and the old McIntyre Hotel. The McIntyre Hotel is one of the oldest buildings on Main Street. In 1875 A. McMillan built the Dominion House. In 1881 w. Nelson manages the hotel under the name Nelson House and purchased it in 1883. J.H. McIntyre the hotel in 1888 and changed the name to the McIntyre House Hotel. The name remains today. There were 26 bedrooms several sample rooms, a dining room and a livery stable out back. The stables were reached by passing through an archway at the north end of the building. Traveling salesmen set up and sold their wares from the sample rooms at the front of the hotel. The lovely overhang porch is gone now and the hotel barely resembles the picturesque building of a gentler time. Numerous owners have made their changes and gone are the toothier things but the memories remain. The McIntyre was mentioned in John Kenneth Galbraith’s memorable book “The Scotch” Galbraith visited and was recorded on film having a pint with the locals at the Mac. |
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