Wyatt House
The Wyatt House Museum in Summerside, PEI,
Canada was the home of one of Prince Edward Island's most
prominent residents, Wanda Lefurgey Wyatt and has been restored
to its former original condition, having been built in 1867,
filled with many excellent and magnificent antique furnishings
and provides a chance to look at the life and times of the Wyatt
family that lived here for over a century. The house would be
built in the year that Canada became a nation, and remained in
the Wyatt family until Wanda passed on in 1998 at the age of
102. The lovely house was restored to its original pristine
Edwardian condition, filled with outstanding relics the family
would bring back from their travels to create a marvelous living
house museum. Robert Alder Strong, a local merchant, was the
original owner, and it is believed that his brother, Charles, a
Summerside customs house agent, would then live in it. John E.
Lefurgey would purchase it in 1887 at a public auction from the
Allison estate, and his daughter, Cecelia, would later marry a
young lawyer from Charlottetown named James "Ned" Wyatt; getting
the house in 1893. Wyatt would serve two terms in the
legislature and eventually rose to become Speaker of the House
from 1912 to 1916, while his two daughters, Dorothy and Wanda,
were born and lived in the house throughout their lives. The
house had originally been quite simple in appearance, but the
Wyatts would embellish it during their tenure. The classically
inspired front porch and Palladian windows in the attic, that
faces west and east were added in the early 20th century, with
Miss Wyatt's diaries recording the many changes that were made
in 1928.
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