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"Heritage Report
Dillingham-Lamorie Residence
1636 Arathorn Court, Concession 2, Lot 19
Town of Pickering
October, 1999
Prepared for:
Heritage Pickering
Prepared by:
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Toronto, Ontario
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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t.0 INTRODUCTION _... 1.11
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2.D HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ........... _.. _...
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3.0 ARCHITECTURE ..... ..............
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4.0 SITE CONTEXT ....................
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5.0 SUMMARY OF HERITAGE
INTEREST ._.... _...........
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SOURCES
APPENDIX A - Historical Maps and Photograpl
APPENDIX B - Family Geneaology
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Dillingham-Lamorie Residence
Concession 2, Lot 19, Town of Pickering
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Heritage Pickering retained the services of Unterman McPhail Associates to prepare a
historical and architectural report on the Dillingham-Lamorie Residence, 1636 Arathorn Court,
Concession 2, Lot 19, Town of Pickering.
Unterman McPhail conducted a site visit on July 2, 1999, with John Sabean, Heritage
Pickering. Although the house interior was viewed during the site visit, an interior heritage
assessment was not undertaken as part of this report.
The report is divided into four key sections. Section 2 provides a summary history of the
family and the property. Section 3 describes its architectural attributes. Section 4 describes
the context of the site. Section 5 provides a summary of heritage interest.
2.0 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Dillingham Family
Stephen Dillingham was born in the United States circa 1798. It is not known when he arrived
in Upper Canada or where he first lived. However, by the 1830s he had arrived in Pickering
Township and settled on Lot 19, Concession
2.¹ Dillingham married Mary Widdifield circa 1830. She was born in Upper Canada on
June 8, 1812. Nine children were listed in the Census Returns (1851 and 1861). They include:
Sydney (born ca. 1834); Phebe (born ca. 1836); Susannah (born ca. 1837);
Edward (born ca. 1839); Calvin (born ca. 1844); Henry (born ca. 1843);
Albert (born ca. 1845); Mary Elizabeth (born ca. 1849-50); and, Robert (born ca. 1852).
Daughter Susannah married William Powell, the son of early Pickering settler Caleb Powell.
Daughter Phoebe Ann married William Francis Purdy. The Census Return (1861) identified
Mary Dillingham as an adherent of the Disciple religion.
Stephen Dillingham died in Pickering on July 5, 1858, at approximately sixty years of age.
His burial site is unknown. Mary Dillingham continued to live
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on the family farm with her son Calvin. The Census Return (1861) noted that the widow
Mrs. Dillingham, her nine children and a servant lived in a one and-a-half storey stone house.
Only five children were living with Mary Dillingham by 1871. The Census Return (1901) noted
Mary Dillingham as being 88 years of age. It is believed that she died in the early 1900s.
Her burial site is unknown.
Son Calvin Dillingham took over the farm in the 1860s. He married Margaret Bishop circa the
early 1870s. The Census Return (1891) noted seven children. They included: Elizabeth
(born ca. 1874); Harry (born ca. 1874-75); Laura (born ca. 1876); Minnie (born ca. 1880;
Edith (born ca. 1882); Gertrude (born ca. 1884); and, Franklin or Frank (born ca. 1888).
Margaret Dillingham died in 1912 and Calvin died in 1916. Both are buried in Groveside
Cemetery, Brooklin, Town of Whitby, as are three of their adult children, namely, Minnie,
Gertrude and Franklin.
Property History
The Crown granted a patent for 200 acres of Lot 19, Concession 2, Township of Pickering to
the Honourable David William Smith on July 16, 1799. Smith sold the property to Asa Post
and Stephen Dillingham on October 3, 1833. Dillingham settled on the north half,
Post on the south half. The Toronto Home District Directory (1837) noted a Stephen
Dillingham on Lot 19, Concession 2, Pickering Township. Rowsell's City of Toronto and City
of York Directory of 1850-51 noted a Stephen ""Delingham"" on Lot 19, Concession 2,
Pickering Township.
The Personal Census Return (1851) did not record an entry for Stephen Dillingham or family;
however, the Agricultural Return for that year noted that Dillingham was located on one
hundred acres of Lot 19, Concession 2. Thirty-five acres of the property had been cultivated
in 1860 with thirty acres under crops and five in gardens and/or orchards.
Another sixty-five acres were wooded or in a wild condition.
Since Dillingham had been on the property since the 1830s,
it is possible that he had built a stone house by 1850, and most certainly by his death in 1858.
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Stephen Dillingham mortgaged the north half of Lot 19 in 1852 for £200. Although mortgages
may indicate property improvements, there was no significant rise in the assessed tax value
of the property in the assessment rolls for 1851 to 1860. According to his will (1858),
Stephen Dillingham left his ""homestead farm and premises"" to his wife for her use during
her lifetime or until she remarried. The Census Return (1861) confirms that a one and-a-half
storey stone house was located on Lot 19, Concession 2 by 1860.
Mary Dillingham was noted as a farmer in the 1861 and 1871 Census Returns.
The assessment rolls recorded son Edward as a freeholder of Lot 19,
Concession 2 in 1860-61 and sons Sydney and Edward in 1862. A third son Calvin was
noted as the property freeholder by 1865. The Agricultural Census Return (1861) noted that
the one hundred acre farm had a cash value of $2000.00. An additional ten acres had been
cultivated since 1851 with twenty-five in crops, twenty in pasture and one acre of gardens
and/or orchards. In 1867 the Dillinghams sold the north quarter of the north half of Lot 19,
Concession 2 to John Wise.
According to the Census Return (1871) the Dillinghams owned a one storey stone house
with nine rooms and a barn or stable building on fifty acres of land. Forty-five acres of land
were cultivated, ten in pasture and three acres in gardens and/or orchards. Between 1871
and 1901 Calvin Dillingham expanded the farm holdings. The Census Return (1901) noted
Calvin Dillingham as the owner of 150 acres, a house and barn or stable.
The stone house was described as one storey with ten rooms.
Calvin Dillingham sold the south half of the north half of Lot 19, Concession 2 to
David E. Pugh for $2,600.00 in March 1904. Pugh is shown as the owner of the property
on a map of Pickering Towship (1917). James McCracker acquired the property from Hugh
Pugh in 1940. He sold it to William, James and Mary B. Featherstone in 1949.
The Featherstones sold the property to Albert and Barbara Suter in 1961,
the Suters sold to the present owners, Bruce and Judith Lamorie, in 1980.
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Concession 2, Lot 19, Town of Pickering
3.0 ARCHITECTURE
This vernacular one and-a-half storey stone house was built originally as a one storey house
with a central hall plan. The multi-coloured masonry is regularly coursed and squared
rubblestone accentuated on the front elevation with a raised ribbon joint to create an
ashlar-type pattern. Stone voussoirs with keystones and large quoins accent the window and
door openings and corners. A truncated hip roof has a wide overhang, boxed eaves,
a simple moulded cornice and plain fascia. A single brick chimney is built into the north
wall of the house.
Stone was a less commonly used building material in Pickering than frame or brick in the
early-to-mid nineteenth century. The Dillingham-Lamorie house also has a hip roof which is
atypical for the area. The more common early-to-mid nineteenth century roof type found in
Pickering is a shallow-pitched front or side gable roof. Two contemporary examples of other
stone houses with hip roofs in Pickering include the former Tool house
(circa 1830s, now in a derelict and ruinous state) and the Woodruff-Mackenzie house
(circa 1850s). The Seneca Palmer house (circa 1840) which also has a hip roof is of
brick construction.
The front or east elevation is divided into three bays with a central door and window on each
side. The window openings have wooden lug sills and window sash with six over six glass
panes. The window frame is set close to the exterior masonry wall creating a deep embrasure
on the interior. The front entranceway is set back from the exterior stone wall to create an
embrasure which has been decorated with wood panels. A rectangular transom above the
door and rectangular half sidelights have been divided by vertical and horizontal muntins
creating a highly decorative effect. The main door has been altered with the insertion of
modern decorative leaded glass panes into the top panels.
The north and south elevations are symmetrically arranged with two window openings each
as well as basement windows. The construction of the window opening and the frame and
sash is the same as those found on the
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the east elevation. The exterior window shutters are twentieth century additions.
The west elevation or the rear of the building has undergone the most change.
The elevation has three window openings and a door on the ground floor as well as an
entrance to the basement on the south corner. The two south windows are set in from the
southwest corner creating an asymmetrical arrangement.
A small gable, one storey frame vestibule/addition has been built at the ground floor door.
A raised, modern, wooden deck is located at the rear entrance.
The basement entrance is covered by a one storey, gable, frame addition.
The most significant alteration is the addition of a wide gable dormer in the attic area to
accommodate interior bedrom space. According to the present owner the previous owner
undertook the renovations circa the 1970s.
4.0 SITE CONTEXT
Located on the west side of Brock Road halfway between the 3rd Concession and
Finch Avenue, this property was once a rural farmstead. The original rural agricultural setting
of the property has now given way to a suburban subdivision. Presently the property is
bounded by Centennial Park on the north, residential subdivision on the west and south and
Brock Road on the east.
The associated landscape of the property (i.e., within the present property boundaries)
has been altered, but the overall character has been retained on the front and south
elevations which are visible when approaching the house. Tall mature fir trees at the front of
the property partially screen the subdivision when looking south from the front of the house.
A narrow buffer zone on the south side of the property contributes to a sense of space and the
former rural setting.
The historic linkages and traditional relationship of the house to Brock Road have been
altered substantially by the rerouting of the approach to the
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property from Brock Road through the subdivision. The house is no longer visible from Brock
Road due to a high wooden fence.
5.0 SUMMARY OF HERITAGE INTEREST
The property was first settled by the Stephen and Mary Dillingham in the 1830s.
Built circa 1850, possibly in the 1840s, during a formative period of the agricultural settlement
of Pickering Township, the house is an important example of an early-to-mid nineteenth
century rural residential building. It is a visually attractive with heritage merit in it composition,
construction detail and craftsmanship and stone building material. Its hip roof construction is
atypical for Pickering Township during this construction period.
Although some alterations have been carried out on the exterior, principally on the west
elevation, the overall nineteenth century character of the house has been retained.
The visual quality of the stone masonry, the front elevation with its classical style
entranceway and the window sash with six over six glass panes are important elements in
defining its heritage character.
¹ It is possible that Stephen Dillingham originally settled in neighbouring Whitby Township.
A Jacob and Isaac Dillingham are noted in Whitby Township on nineteenth century maps.
Local Brooklin cabinetmaker Isaac Dillingham and wife Caroline are buried in the Pioneer
Section of the Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin, Ontario, as are Calvin and Margaret Dillingham
(Pickering Township) and three of their family members.
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SOURCES
Primary Sources
Abstract Index, Land Records, North Pickering Township 1798-1958.
Assessment Rolls, Pickering Township, 1851, 1853-1868, 1869-1913, 1920-1940.
Census Records, Ontario County, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891, 1901.
Collector's Rolls, Pickering Township, 1851-1854.
Durham Registry Office, Abstract Index.
Durham Registry Office, #22020, September 30, 1863, ""Memorial of the last Will &
Testament of Stephen Dillingham dated 18 May 1858"".
Secondary Sources
Farewell, J.E. Ontario County, A Short Sketch of its Settlement, Physical Features and
Resources with Brief Historical Notes. Whitby: Gazette-Chronicle Press, 1907.
Greenwald, Michelle. The Historical Complexities of Pickering-Markham-Scarborough-
Uxbridge. Ontario Ministry of Treasury Economics and intergovernmental Affairs:
North Pickering Community Development Project. Sept 1973.
Groveside Cemetery (Brooklin) and the Pioneer Cemetery, Con. 5, Lot 25, Whitby Township.
Whitby/Oshawa Genaological Society, 1987.
The Home Directory 1846-47.
Hough Stansbury Woodland Naylor Dance Limited, et. al. Seaton Cultural
Heritage Resources Assessment, Technical Appendix. Hough Stansbury Woodland Naylor
Dance Limited, July 1994.
McKay, William A. The Pickering Story. Pickering: The Township of Pickering Historical
Society, 1961.
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Project Planning Associates Limited with g.m. yost associates ltd.,
Architectural Evaluation of the North Pickering Project and the Toronto Atra Airports Project
Sites. April 1974, Second edition June 1974.
Rowsell's City of Toronto and City of York Directory of 1850-51.
R.D.H.P. Conservation Report: Rouge, Duff in, Highland, Petticoat Valley Conservation
Report. Ontario Department of Planning and Development, Conservation Branch, 1956.
Ontario Land Record Index, Ontario Archives.
Walton, George. The City of Toronto and the Home District Commercial Directory and
Register, with Almanack and Calendar for 1837. Toronto: T. Dalton and W. J. Coates, 1837.
Wood, William R. Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community.
Toronto: William Briggs, 1911.
Maps
Map of Pickering Township, Illustrated Atlas of the County of Ontario, Ont. Toronto: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1877.
Map of the Township of Pickering, Ontario County, Canada, with Owner's names & School
Sections. Toronto: Chas. E. Goad Civil Engineers, 1895.
Map of Pickering Township, Centennial Souvenir, 1967.
Pickering, Ontario County, Province of Ontario. Toronto: Map & Advertising Co. Limited,
circa 1917.
Tremaine's Map of the County of Ontario, Upper Canada. Drawn by John Shier. Toronto:
George C. Tremaine, 1860.
National Topographic Map Series. Markham Sheet 30M/14 - 1922; 1964; 1979.
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Stephen & Mary Dillingham Family
STEPHEN DILLINGHAM -- married -- MARY WIDDIFIELD
b. ca. 1798, U.S.A -- b. June 8,1812, Ontario
d. July 5,1858, Pickering -- d. ca. early 1900s
1) Sidney (Sydney) -- 2) Phoebe Ann -- 3) Susannah
b. ca. 1834 -- b. ca. 1836 -- b. ca. 1837
--------------------------------------------------married -- married--
-------------------------------------------------William Francis Purdy-- William Powell
6) Henry --- 5) CALVIN DILLINGHAM -- - 4) Edward
b. ca. 1843 --- b. ca. Dec. 2, 1844, Ontario--- b. ca. 1839
--------------------------d. April 18,1916 ---
----------------------------married----
--------------------------- Margaret Bishop---
7) Albert --- 8) Mary Elizabeth --- 9) Robert
b. ca. 1845 --- b. ca. 1849-50 --- b. ca. 1852
-------------------------------------------------------------------------(Oshawa Union Presbyterian Cemetery)
------------------------------------------------------------------------- married
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Louise Pirie (?)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------(Oshawa Union Presbyterian Cemetery)
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Calvin & Margaret Dillingham Family
Calvin Dillingham---married---Margaret Bishop
b. ca. Dec. 2, 1844, Ontario---b. Nov. 18, 1849
d. April 18, 1916---d. Nov. 30, 1912
(Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin)---(Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin)
1) Elizabeth---2) Harry---3) Laura
4) Minnie---5) Edith---6) Gertrude
b. ca. 1880--------------------b.ca. 1882
d. ca. 1884---------------------d. Sept 28, 1929
(Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin)--------------------(Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin)
--------------------------------------------------------------Married
----------------------------------------------------------------Donald Cameron
7) Franklin
b.ca. 1888
d. Dec. 31, 1920 (32 yrs)
(Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin)
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