Winterholme
Address: 309 and 311 Daly Avenue
Construction date: 1865
This house was built in 1865 by Henry Hodge Horsey, a prolific and well-connected architect, for Edouard Desbarats, the Queen's Printer.
In 1870, Sir Sandford Fleming purchased the large stone mansion for a sum of $10 000, an enormous amount of money at that time. He changed the name of the house from Chapel Court to Winterholme and lived there with his large family for about 37 years.
Fleming severed off some lots along Besserer, and built a house in 1904 for his youngest son Hugh and his new wife, Ethel.
During the First World War, Hugh served in France as captain with the hospital unit of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. At that time, his house and Winterholme were military convalescent homes until about 1920. It appears this house, then called the Fleming Convalescent Home, and Winterholme were connected, probably to maximize the available convalescent area. Hugh and family lived here for 17 years; he sold it in 1922.
After the departure of the Flemings, Winterholme was converted to apartments in the 1920s with the entrance moved to the south side of the edifice.
Some of the original detailing, like the marble fireplace, high ceilings and ornate trim can still be found intact inside the building.
