Besserer House
Address: 149 Daly Avenue
Construction date: 1844 or 1859
This Georgian-Style home was built for Louis Theodore Besserer, at the corner of King Edward in 1844 or 1859 – sources disagree, whose family had been granted most of what now comprises Sandy Hill. It was the first large residence built in Sandy Hill.
Besserer had 13 children with two wives. His last son was born just a year before Besserer’s own death when he was 75. He named this son Louis-Joseph Papineau after the 1837 rebellion leader. The elder Papineau was present at the baptism.
Later, William McDougal, one of the fathers of Confederation lived here in the 1860s.
