Front Door Fascination: The Osterhout Log Cabin
June 2nd, 2009 Categories: Front Door Fascination, Photographs
This is the clearly-not-original front door of the Osterhout Log Cabin. A nearby plaque advises it’s the oldest building in Scarborough, built in 1795 by Augustus Jones. Jones was commissioned by John Graves Simcoe, First Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, to survey Scarborough. William Osterhout later received the first Crown Grant of the land from King George III in 1805.
However, a Google search (william + osterhout + scarborough) finds a number of articles that claim Jones wasn’t the builder, that Osterhout received his Grant much earlier and that there is no record he ever lived on the Scarborough property. So what’s up with the name?
The Cabin is situated in Toronto’s Guildwood Park and thus owned by the City, so it’s not going on the market any time soon (read: never).
But what if it could be sold? I’d LOVE to write the marketing material for this gem. No concerns that this is a fixer-upper (no granite countertops, let alone indoor plumbing!), as it’s all about location, location, location for this one. Situated high on the Scarborough Bluffs, overlooking Lake Ontario, does it get any better? No, actually, it doesn’t.
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That’s just lovely. In addition to the marketing copy, just imagine the video tour you could create for that property.