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Rookwood in July 2017

A one-and-a-half-storey summer cottage with a brick chimney and two dormer windows. It has a small but tidy front lawn and plantings of shrubs and peonies along the edge of a plain verandah. There a spruce tree in the left foreground, and in the background, a cloud-strewn but sunny sky.

Photograph by Karen Molson, 2017

The summer cottage known as Rookwood is located not far from Villa Les Rochers in old St. Patrick. Early governors general including the Moncks and the Dufferins occasionally rented Rookwood. Lady Macdonald painted at least one watercolour from the grounds here.