ABERHART HOUSE This is the only private house in Alberta with the distinction of having been the home of two premiers.
BAKER RESIDENCE Herbert Baker was born in Yorkshire, England on December 10, 1866. He came to Canada in 1882 and worked for the Massey Manufacturing Co., later Massey-Harris, in Toronto.
FULTON THOMPSON RESIDENCE ‘Fult’ Thompson had this generously proportioned structure built as the family residence in 1915.
HARTROFT BUNGALOWS Samuel M. Hartroft built these four houses in 1911, probably from common plans or pre-fabricated packages, which were popular at the time.
HUESTIS RESIDENCE The Huestis home, an attractive one-and-a-half storey bungalow, was constructed in 1912.
LAFRANCE RESIDENCE Built by local contractor, C.T. Eline around 1912, the house displays a combination of two fashion¬able early twentieth century residential styles, Bungalow and Queen Anne.
MARGARET MARSHALL RESIDENCE Katharine Tardrew “spinster,” received this lot in 1914, probably as a wedding gift, from Mary Tardrew “married woman”, who had purchased it that year. Katharine became “wife of William Ping Williams,” and in July 1914, he received a $2,000 permit for this, the smallest lot in The Highlands.
MCLUHAN RESIDENCE Marshall McLuhan, born in Edmonton in 1911, lived here with his parents from 1912 to 1918. He received a Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1934, and taught English at various U.S. colleges before settling at the University of Toronto in 1944.
SHARPE RESIDENCE When Dr. Edward Montrose Sharpe first arrived in 1896 and for three years thereafter, he was the only medical practitioner in Lacombe.
SHELDON RESIDENCE In June 1914, Carleton G. Sheldon obtained a $3, 500 building permit for this lot, and by 1915 he was installed as the first resident.
