Victorian Home Tour

Mr. Seventies & I enjoyed a "haunted" ghost tour of Beaconsfield.....a victorian manor built in 1877 for James & Edith Peake.......

James was a wealthy shipbuilder.....sadly they did not enjoy the home for very long....amd four of their six children tragically died....two I think from diphtheria.....

This is the view from the front of the house.....on the beautiful Charlottetown waterfront....it was just at sunset.....

The front of the house facing the harbour....

It wasn't easy to capture photos inside the mansion.....as there were other people on the tour mingling about....but I was able to capture a few....this is the entrance...one of my favourite spots.  The floor....is original tile....shipped from England & still in perfect condition.....the colours & wallpapers used...gorgeous!  No secret I'm a huge fan of colour....notice the wooden rosettes around the top mouldings.  The small room on the left.....was a gift shop.....

The dining room was right off the entry.....straight ahead.  There is a coal burning fireplace in just about every room....with the exception of the nursery upstairs.....just look at those mouldings!  The ceilings were twelve feet.....with the doors being about ten feet tall!!  And solid wood.....

These were the double sitting rooms.....to the right of the main entrance....and my favourite rooms of all.....the colours used - gorgeous!  The paint colours on the mouldings was matched perfectly with the colours in the wallpaper.....*swoon*.....

Something else I noticed.....throughout the home.....the pictures were all hung at the right height!!  Nothing drives me crazy when pictures and photographs are hung either too high or too low!  I'm sure I'm the only one who notices things like that....

I also noticed in a few of the rooms.....radiators had been added for heat....perhaps as the years went on.....much easier & more efficient than coal I presume.....the radiator to the left of the window in this photo was one of a few I noticed.....and the details around the ceilings in some rooms.....amazing.....and most rooms had medallions on the ceilings as well.....

There was a coal fireplace in each of the sitting rooms....this one is solid marble......

Our tour guide was amazing.....I'm not certain the house is actually "haunted".....but there have been reports of footsteps heard, whispers, things moved around over the years.....

We made our way upstairs.....where there were at least six rooms.....one of which was a sewing room.  I was unable to get photos of each room......as again....there were others enjoying the tour as well.....I think the wheelchair was more of a period prop.....as nothing was mentioned of any of the owners requiring one....

The nursery was the smallest of bedrooms....I was not able to get decent photos.....also lighting was minimal......for added effect on the tour......

There was a look out turret or cupola which had a set of very narrow, winding stairs to get to....I didn't dare brave the stairs....my knee is not conducive to some stairs yet.....Mr. Seventies went up & reported it was a room used to watching ships in the harbour.....and the windows all contained the old, thick wavey glass.....

Nor did I venture to the basement.....as the stairs were steep, narrow and other than doors being stored there.....not much to see I was told....

We really enjoyed our evening.....and as we were leaving a huge group of people were being led around the waterfront.....by a man carrying a lantern!  I quickly realized this large gathering was on the "ghost tour" around the city.....we are signed up to take that in later in the month!!  

Cool here this morning.....we had our first frost!!  Today we celebrate Thanksgiving....Canada being the first country to celebrate Thanksgiving with Martin Frobisher and his crew holding a feast back in 1578 to give thanks for a safe voyage to North America...also before the 1621 feast that is the basis for the American Thanksgiving.....which is linked to a harvest festival.   Likely why Canadian Thanksgiving is earlier than in the US.....growing up we celebrated both days......as we had family living close to us in the US.....trips back & fourth then were a common occurrence.....

To those of us celebrating today.....wishing everyone....

Join me later today over at https://betweennapsontheporch.net/ for Metamorphis Monday and again tomorrow with Joanne at https://www.myslicesoflife.com/ for Talking About It Tuesday.....

Thank you for spending time with me today.....hope to see you back again!!

Til next time.....