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1470 Bronte Road

Demolished House in Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Jul 02 2012

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Recent status Demolished
Location # 5004

A lovely old farmhouse with several out buildings on Bronte Road.

The charm of this home is the staircase, they have preserved some walls inside but the staircase seems to be what they have left as is. There is a crawlspace basement and a cool attic/upstairs that smells like (and sounds like) Raccoon.

The exterior is beautiful, red brick, decorative wooden fixtures and original trees in the front that are being protected.

The home is known as "Oakhurst" or the "Inglehart Home", it was previously inhabited by William Cyrus Inglehart and family. William Inglehart was born in 1823 and died in 1917

08 Oct 2015

Fire (most likely arson) engulfed the home on the 27th of September & destroyed the roof. They would try to determine the cause & stabilty of the home in the following week. I drove by today & the home is gone.

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9 years ago

Looks like destroying the home wasn't enough. I couldn't get close enough with the roads blocked, but from where the smoke is, it looks like the barn is on fire right now.

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9 years ago

Demolished, was a beautiful home.

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9 years ago

Arseholes. House was on fire yesterday, no explanation yet, but I assume arson. I haven't been by there yet but I've been told the roof is destroyed, not sure how well the structure has held up or if it's salvageable, but it is still standing. http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5933547-century-old-home-goes-up-in-flames-on-bronte-road-in-oakville/

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11 years ago

it is indeed bat guano

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11 years ago

I didn't see any rats, just bats.

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11 years ago

There is a POE at the front of the house beside the main door, all the other windows are boarded so its quite dark and scary inside. Also rats have set up camp in the attic and there are mountains of poo all over

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11 years ago

All sealed up again.

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11 years ago

The back door was wide open when I went. Unfortunately everything else is boarded up so it was so dark and musty inside.

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11 years ago

Awesome 19th century house. Thanks for the photos all.

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11 years ago

beautiful :).

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11 years ago

Last time I was in, there was still bats living in the attic. So please be nice to them :)

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11 years ago

The story goes that this property housed an orphanage for many years

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11 years ago

Nice adds Superss, too bad they sealed it up on you :(

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12 years ago

My guess is that this will become a Provincial Park House much like the Spruce Lane Farm House on the other side of the Creek. Heavy landscaping & what looks like a berm being made. Maybe to separate the outside world from the campground & the house?

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12 years ago

I used to think I was a freak but now I'm not so sure.

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12 years ago

Im surprise you haven't gone down a chimney yet to get inside. Lol

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12 years ago

From the look of things I guess this place get added to places I want to visit.

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12 years ago

F#$KING RIGHT I got in! haha, it's cool inside - great staircase. I found some more pics from the 1800's - uploading as we speak..hang tight. Thanks again for finding this Filper, I took off to see it right away since it's so close to my place. Definitely some kind of slow restoration going on inside..very very slow!

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12 years ago

I haven't seen it yet but I was going to comment before that if anyone was going to get in it was r&r

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12 years ago

Nice entry love the red brick palaces like this.

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12 years ago

Thanks for the fix. It is owned by the Province and very secure.

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12 years ago

Nice find Filper, I've never thought to look that way on Bronte! Lets hope someone can get some inside pics.

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12 years ago

Very nice location though. i guess its sealed up tight from the looks of it.

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12 years ago

you can do that yourself by the edit location button up top.