32 Matthew Street The Bonter House

82 Bursthall Street, built in 1892 Here’s what our readers told us:

• Joanne Cooper Murphy I believe Hogan Courier rented there in 2000s and i believe Les Kidd knew the owner

• Debra McArthur I know Wanda Ray lived on the south side and Dawn Fluke lived on the north probably late 80's

• Christy Maxwell I lived in the south side as a kid for a bit when I was little.

• Carl Embury  It was the home of Arnold & Phoebe Walker.

• Cathy Fenton I remember when the left side (looking from the street) was rented by John and Marjorie Wilson and family - from the early to late 60s. At the same time various families rented the right side, including a school teacher and a family who moved from the states for a few years as the husband worked at the mine. In the late 60s Phoebe Walker moved back into the house along with her sister.

• Tammie Wheeler Yes. My grandma (phoebe) lived here with her sister (Leona) when I grew up next door. The Wilson's also lived there for a while too.

• Shawna Booth I owned this house 2004-2006. Unfortunately, don't know any of it's history.

• Lauren Walker My Grandma Walker’s house. It had the ripest tomatoes and most beautiful roses growing in the front garden. I fell down the apple tree growing off to the right. It hurt.

21 Bursthall St built in 1910 according to MPAC; Occupied by the Sheridan family in the ‘50s.

Becky Fudge We moved into that house in May of 1993. It was used as a rooming house for the miners, and a young woman gave piano lessons there.

71 Forsyth Street

was originally the home of Ely Clairmont, one of two brothers who were blacksmiths,  having come to Marmora in the early 1850s from Quebec,  to set up shop, probably lured by the iron works. To read more about his brother, Charles, click here.

Marmora Herald Feb. 1, 1906 “Mr. John McCullogh has bought the Clairmont brick house on Forsyth St. and is moving in today.” Corrected Feb. 8, 1906 “It was Mr. Osborne, not Mr. McCullogh who moved into the Clairmont House on Forsyth St last week”

15 Madoc Street,

then and now

104 Forsythe St. Marmora.

It was built by James (Jim) Martin in approximately the 1940s. Jim & Sabina Martin along with their 6 boys lived here during the winter & then lived at their white cottage at the end of Quinn Rd during the summer. (Info from Karen Gravelle)

This property, that included a large barn, was originally the site of the Pringle Hotel, one of four Marmora hotels in the early 1900’s. The barn was probably used to stable customer horses and perhaps a cow for milk and chickens for eggs and eating. The hotel was destroyed by fire on May 24, 1914.

The property was purchased by Wm. Flynn and construction began immediately. The Flynn family moved in the fall of 1914. The house was subsequently occupied by the Woodhouse family until 1918 and then the Earl Prentice family until it was purchased by Cecil and Verna Neal in 1944, Mr. Neal died in 1990 and Mrs. Neal remained there until 1998.

According to Joy Neal Lynch, the four-bedroom two storey house is on a large property that included the two-storey barn, a huge garden and three apple trees. There was also a wonderful well and at the time the Neal’s owned it, many in the neighborhood used it as their source of drinking water.