-What a shame it's gone.
-Buck House?!
-definitely the Buck house
-I thought it was the Buck's home first. Beautiful.
-I was going to say the same thing.
-It was the Buck house.
- As a kid I was always afraid of this house when I walked through the culvert. Not to sure why.
-This was originally the Rectory for Holy Cross Church. The stone church was the original Catholic Church in Georgetown. Holy Cross was a mission of Acton. The priest from Acton came to Georgetown for Mass on Sundays. In the 50's we got resident priests from Belgium and became a separate parish. Originally the church was built without a basement. Martin Cummins, my grandfather, and Jim Boyle were two of the men who dug the basement.
My mom volunteered and did the linens and flowers for the church. She got the beautiful flowers from the Pearce Greenhouse. I remember the Rectory very well. Huge house with very little furniture. Very stark.
I also remember the culvert, running through to get to my Granny Cummins' house at the top of the hill on John street.
- Stayed away too, thought it was haunted
-There are fewer of them, because of shrinking congregations, and crippling up-keep costs on some of these older homes.
-Also, there often used to be more than one priest and a live in housekeeper. In Georgetown from the 60's into the 80's there were two priests.
-most churches have sold the manses since when ministers retired they had no home. Ministers that paid a salary and housing allowance with the exception of the Catholic Church that still have rectories but priests are housed with other priests when they retire.
-That’s the house with the rock ledge we used to sit on after rollerskating I think 🤔
-Yes we did!
-My grandfather and grandma Norton lived there for quite a few years, raising their sons Cliff, Albert, Doug and Bruce. :) It was a residential home.
-my mom cleaned it for the priest s father zeno @ father octter
-i remember when they installed the push button for the walk/dont walk signal on that corner, us kids just about wore out that button.
-Where the parking lot for the church is now?
-Hmmm, when was it torn down?
-Mid/end 90's I believe - it was a beautiful place with the trees around it. Long before the retaining wall was put in that we all see now
-When I first came to town this house had a family of NORTONS live in part of it //I knew the youngest one /His name was BRUCE /tHEY MAY OF PART OF ALBERT & CLIFF FAMILY ??"?
-The house faced Mill or Guelph? I grew up in the area at that time and don't recall it...like at all? I must have a brain tumour or something? Any abandoned building or place is where we would gravitate to as kids, I'm really surprised I don't recall it?
-The Priests lived in it till it was torn down I do believe.
-Facing Guelph St.
- Would make a great little bake shop cafe hmmm
-Such a beautiful piece of our history !
-Shhhhh. They'll tear it down to build more condos. lol
-it’s already gone.
-I was not aware.
-And the condos are already being built right behind it :(
-For people that house was rented out [NORTONS] father MORGAN WAS THE FATHER OF THE CHURCH AND HE LIVED IN ACTON
-I remember Father Octter being there, we went to the church there. Than the new RC Church was built on Maple Ave and then the old one became the French RC Church.
-Buck House?!
-definitely the Buck house
-I thought it was the Buck's home first. Beautiful.
-I was going to say the same thing.
-It was the Buck house.
- As a kid I was always afraid of this house when I walked through the culvert. Not to sure why.
-This was originally the Rectory for Holy Cross Church. The stone church was the original Catholic Church in Georgetown. Holy Cross was a mission of Acton. The priest from Acton came to Georgetown for Mass on Sundays. In the 50's we got resident priests from Belgium and became a separate parish. Originally the church was built without a basement. Martin Cummins, my grandfather, and Jim Boyle were two of the men who dug the basement.
My mom volunteered and did the linens and flowers for the church. She got the beautiful flowers from the Pearce Greenhouse. I remember the Rectory very well. Huge house with very little furniture. Very stark.
I also remember the culvert, running through to get to my Granny Cummins' house at the top of the hill on John street.
- Stayed away too, thought it was haunted
-There are fewer of them, because of shrinking congregations, and crippling up-keep costs on some of these older homes.
-Also, there often used to be more than one priest and a live in housekeeper. In Georgetown from the 60's into the 80's there were two priests.
-most churches have sold the manses since when ministers retired they had no home. Ministers that paid a salary and housing allowance with the exception of the Catholic Church that still have rectories but priests are housed with other priests when they retire.
-That’s the house with the rock ledge we used to sit on after rollerskating I think 🤔
-Yes we did!
-My grandfather and grandma Norton lived there for quite a few years, raising their sons Cliff, Albert, Doug and Bruce. :) It was a residential home.
-my mom cleaned it for the priest s father zeno @ father octter
-i remember when they installed the push button for the walk/dont walk signal on that corner, us kids just about wore out that button.
-Where the parking lot for the church is now?
-Hmmm, when was it torn down?
-Mid/end 90's I believe - it was a beautiful place with the trees around it. Long before the retaining wall was put in that we all see now
-When I first came to town this house had a family of NORTONS live in part of it //I knew the youngest one /His name was BRUCE /tHEY MAY OF PART OF ALBERT & CLIFF FAMILY ??"?
-The house faced Mill or Guelph? I grew up in the area at that time and don't recall it...like at all? I must have a brain tumour or something? Any abandoned building or place is where we would gravitate to as kids, I'm really surprised I don't recall it?
-The Priests lived in it till it was torn down I do believe.
-Facing Guelph St.
- Would make a great little bake shop cafe hmmm
-Such a beautiful piece of our history !
-Shhhhh. They'll tear it down to build more condos. lol
-it’s already gone.
-I was not aware.
-And the condos are already being built right behind it :(
-For people that house was rented out [NORTONS] father MORGAN WAS THE FATHER OF THE CHURCH AND HE LIVED IN ACTON
-I remember Father Octter being there, we went to the church there. Than the new RC Church was built on Maple Ave and then the old one became the French RC Church.