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Park House, Amherstburg, a house that floated across the border

Park House Museum on the main street of Amherstburg, Ontario, photographed in 2025.
Park House Museum on the main street of Amherstburg, Ontario, photographed in 2025. Park House Museum, Amherstburg, Ontario, 2025-06-01 · Crisco 1492 · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Park House in Amherstburg, Ontario, an 18th-century combined dwelling and warehouse, is considered one of the oldest houses in the region. It has long been said that its Loyalist owners floated it down the Detroit River to Upper Canada when the British handed Detroit to the Americans in 1796. Its grooved-post construction is a rare survival of a once-common French-Canadian colonial building type.

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The house and its history, not the Detroit River border region as a whole.

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