Summerside Inn B&B (former Thane Campbell Home) Receives PEIMHF Heritage Award

     Last evening the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation presented their annual Heritage Awards.   One of the recipients are Ken & Jenny Meister of 98 Summer Street in Summerside.  This house is well-known as the former home of P.E.I. Premier (in office 1936-43) Thane Campbell and his family.
     See the article on today's Journal-Pioneer website about the awards...  http://www.journalpioneer.com/News/Local/2014-02-18/article-3620517/P.E.I.-Heritage-Awards-handed-out-during-ceremony-at-Eptek-Centre/1

Here's a photo I took in late summer 2012 during renos.  

Here's a link and photo from the Summerside Inn Bed & Breakfast website.

http://www.summersideinnbandb.com/

Summers Street, Summerside

     Recently I was up to visit a client on Summer Street in Summerside, on that lovely fall day I decided to photograph the wonderful homes and buildings on the street for this blog.

1886 City Hall - http://www.city.summerside.pe.ca/

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=2753&pid=13297&h=Summer,Street,Summerside

Holman Homestead & Gardens: Fox Museum - 

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=16273

1860 St. Mary's Anglican Church -

http://www.stmarystjohnanglicanchurchsummerside.com/#!history-of-our-churches

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=11073&pid=8358&h=Summer,Street,Summerside

1907 Hinton House -

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=11089

1896 Sharp House -

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=11124&pid=0

1898 Dr. James MacLellan House -
http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10060&pid=7375&h=Summer,Street,Summerside
Designed by well-known PEI Architect Wm. C. Harris

 Below: Rear view of above 2 houses - note City Hall in the Distance.

     Below: Former family home of P.E.I. Premier & Canadian Senator Thane Campbell.  Thane Campbell's son Alex became Premier of PEI in the mid 1960's and later Court Justice; also another on, Mel Campbell, was Mayor of Summerside in the 1980s.

1891 Fanning House -

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=2754&pid=0

 1910 Tanton House -

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=12421&pid=9468&h=112,Summer,Street%20(4)

 St. Mary's Convent (Catholic) Corner of Summer & Convent Streets.

Interesting, "funky" (as they'd say in the 1960's) design - entry like a nun's hat.

 Parkside Elementary School -

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=1235&pid=9414&h=Summer,Street,Summerside

 Former home of well-known Summerside and PEI Historian Faye Pound

Note the detail on the window under the verandah.

 1876 Thomas Crabbe House -

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10104&pid=7419&h=Summer,Street,Summerside