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"Wheat Was King" ~ The 1850s A picturesque example of a typical mid-19th century rural Ontario house with architecturally defining 11/2 storeys, centre-front gable trimmed with fanciful bargeboard, and decorative porch or verandah. Building a 11/2 storey house was a clever ploy to gain needed space while avoiding the higher taxes of a 2 storey house. The thick walls of this house are filled with a mixture of mud and straw. The original exterior plaster is underneath the later wood siding. Innkeeper Jno. Bingham lived here c1856. Now 722 Mount Pleasant Road. Photo 2004 courtesy Jim Butler. A simple Gothic vernacular cottage, overall remarkably similar to the Bryning manse. The swagged verandah is a grace note now lost to the ravages of time, a common fate of such high maintenance features. Other period details include the shake roof, exterior plaster (now under wood siding), and the absence of foundation plantings. Possibly built in two stages c1836 and c1848, the house was owned by James Cox in 1850. Now 708 Mount Pleasant Road. Undated photo courtesy Florence Parker.