Heritage & Culture.
Macpherson House at 180 Elizabeth Street on the banks of the Napanee River is a vernacular Georgian frame house built in 1826 by Allan Macpherson — Napanee's first postmaster, militia leader, and grist-mill operator known as "The Laird of Napanee." The Lennox and Addington Historical Society purchased the property in 1962 and restored it as a museum in 1967; today it operates under the Museum of Lennox & Addington as an Ontario Heritage Trust property.
The brief.
The Macpherson House cluster anchors downtown Napanee's heritage offer — the 1826 house on the river at Elizabeth Street and the Museum of Lennox & Addington a few blocks east at 97 Thomas Street East in the former county jailhouse, with archives and exhibits spanning the prehistoric to the present. Macpherson House operates seasonally; confirm year's hours with the Museum of Lennox & Addington each spring.
Allan Macpherson's son Donald inherited the property; Sir John A. Macdonald — a relation — was a frequent guest.
The house remained in the Macpherson family until 1896. The Loyalist Parkway (Highway 33) runs through the township as the broader Loyalist heritage corridor between Greater Napanee and Bath / Kingston east; the corridor's Adolphustown landing-site cluster (Old Hay Bay Church, UEL Heritage Centre, St.
Alban's Centre, Glenora ferry) is covered in the Prince Edward County field guide. Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte) — the sovereign First Nation whose traditional Mohawk territory sits on the Bay of Quinte's north shore west of the Napanee River — neighbours the township to the west.
3. places.
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Macpherson House (180 Elizabeth Street, Napanee)
1826 vernacular Georgian frame house built by Allan Macpherson on the banks of the Napanee River; Ontario Heritage Trust property operated as a museum by the Museum of Lennox & Addington and the Lennox and Addington Historical Society.
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Museum of Lennox & Addington (97 Thomas Street East, Napanee)
County museum and archives in the former county jailhouse; exhibits and archives from prehistoric to present.
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Loyalist Parkway corridor (Greater Napanee segment)
Highway 33 heritage corridor running through the township between Greater Napanee and Loyalist Township / Bath.
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