Lynde House Museum
*Bring your own writing apparatus*
The Last Stop as this house was moved twice before!
The oldest house in Durham Region, Lynde House was originally located on a large 200-acre farm beside Lynde Creek on Dundas Street in Whitby, Ontario.
The Lyndes were some of the first settlers to the area and were truly pioneers. They were a progressive couple who wanted to create a culture of education, industriousness and entrepreneurial spirit.
The Lynde family soon outgrew their original log house. Lynde House was completed about 1811. It was built with Georgian style architecture, and modeled after the Lynde family home, called Malden, in Massachusetts.
Lynde House has been moved twice. It was moved from its original location at 960 Dundas Street West to Cullen Gardens on Taunton Road in 1986, and again in 2013 to its permanent home at the corner of Brock and Burns Streets. Thousands of people lined the streets for each of Lynde House’s two moves!