Elgie Log House

The Elgie Log House is an original log structure and was built on Lot 24, Concession 7 in West Nissouri Township, Middlesex County, Ontario. James Elgie purchased the house and farm in 1877, where he and his wife, Mary, raised their family of six children.

The house is not a shanty or cabin but a real house made with hewn logs, wood floor boards, a brick fireplace, and glass in the windows. These additions were improvements over the original dwelling, suggesting that the settlers would have been on the land long enough to add some comforts, but not long enough to have built a second home.

Originally a one and a half storey structure, the log house was reconstructed as a single storey dwelling when it was relocated to Fanshawe Pioneer Village in 1957.