Guy House as a Museum

James Odgers Guy purchased the home in 1861, for £250. As harbour master, James would have benefitted from living within a stones’ throw of the harbour facilities. In addition to being harbour master James Guy had a long stint in local politics, serving as East Whitby’s Reeve for nine years and even briefly occupying the post of Ontario County Warden. The Guy family would remain in the house until 1884 at which point the house was purchased by the Northcotts and eventually became the possession of the Barnhart’s who subdivide the house into apartments for rent.