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February 2012
Heritage Homes
Wyatt Heritage Properties offers resources to home owners

Summerside Scene
by Peggy Miles

Fred Horne points out an architectural feature to a group attending a Wyatt Heritage Properties presentation Fred Horne points out an architectural feature to a group attending a Wyatt Heritage Properties presentation Heritage…history…the past…some people find it hard to connect to these terms. But imagine if you live in one of PEI’s grand historic homes—all of a sudden history comes alive under your own nose. Oh the stories those walls could tell.

History buffs and heritage preservationists know that the past contains answers to our community makeup, just waiting to be unlocked. One of the major key holders on Prince Edward Island is the City of Summerside’s Wyatt Heritage Properties. Enter any of the properties and you’ll come face to face with vibrant architecture, fascinating artifacts and animated staff who are bursting to share.

I recently stopped into WHP to chat with Fred Horne, Archivist and Collections Coordinator, about the resources available to heritage homeowners. The community has one of the highest per capita ratios of heritage homes in Canada. This is related to its successful shipbuilding and fox breeding industries, both of which produced grand houses in Summerside’s core.

Wyatt Heritage Properties is keen to work with individual home owners to provide options and alternatives to help them manage their properties. Why is maintaining the integrity of a heritage home important? “Because that way you keep the story, the time it was built, the uniqueness,” emphasizes Horne.

The Archivist walked me through an abundance of resources available to the public related to Summerside’s built heritage. At the MacNaught History Centre & Archives property, Horne showed me an amazing collection chronicling Summerside’s historic houses. With summaries featuring 120 dwellings thus far, the profiles share fascinating details—for example, distinct architectural features that may have been hidden after renovations long, long ago.

The collection (which is also available online) serves as a way to maintain a record of Summerside’s structural history. In addition, it provides a fantastic resource to heritage homeowners. So if you’re the owner of a heritage home on Spring Street and are curious to know who owned your house a hundred years ago, Wyatt Heritage Properties may be able to help you unlock that answer.

Wyatt Heritage Properties has been proactive in sharing information with the public. Last fall the entity hosted an afternoon lecture related to heritage retrofit carpentry and methods that can be used to protect architectural integrity. A future presentation is planned on the topic of how preserving older buildings saves the environment.

And during Heritage Week on Saturday, February 18 at 1 pm, Faye Pound (the first Wyatt Heritage Properties Archivist and Historian) will give a lecture described as: “Summer Street, Summerside: A Streetscape of the Emerging Town.” The presentation will include a photographic tour of Summer Street with stories describing how its heritage buildings contribute to the development of the community. The discussion takes place at the Lefurgey Cultural Centre and will be followed by a walk along Summer Street, weather permitting.

“We’re encouraging people to become stewards of their homes. We can adopt an educational approach…that’s knowledge instead of fear,” says Horne.

www.wyattheritage.com

 
 

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