1 % storeys with a centred doorway and transom down and a centred
dormer above. The basic plan was almost square with an addition on
the side.

 

‘The Beck Family homestead, showing 3 cf the 4 houses, drawn by Robert C. Tuck
and published in The Island Magazine in 1980.

Here is an updated version of the description that ran with this
sketch. In 1980 Windsor Beck was living in this house built by his
grandfather, William Beck. It is the fourth dwelling built on the farm
settled by Vere Beck in 1813. The first house, a log cabin built close
to the shore, has disappeared, but houses two and three survive as
outbuildings on the property. Number two is the structure on the
right with a chimney while number three stands behind the kitchen
of number four.

It served the purpose well. It was occupied by members of the
Beck family for more than 100 years. The last occupant, Windsor
Beck, left and moved to a nursing home in Montague in the 1980s.
It was vacant for a number of years and then was bought by Lorin
Brehaut, Jr. (1.4.4,7,3,2.1.) in 1998 and moved a short distance up
the road where it was attached to another historic home built by the
Brehaut family in the 1850s. Lorin, an architect, then renovated the
two properties retaining and restoring many of the original features.

The property is now designated as a heritage home and is regis-
tered as such with the Canadian government.

Vere spent the last eight years of his life in the new house - the

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