13 April 2008

“Belvedere”, the Morton-Jones House

built ca.1850
now “Belvedere Apartments“,
10 Belvedere Place, Brockville

This beautiful house was built for George Morton about 1850 on a seven-acre property at the corner of the King’s Highway #2 and Oxford Ave.
George Morton (1821-1892), a Montrealer by birth, came to Brockville in 1840, and became head of the firm of Morton, McKee & Co., [...]