The Hourie House in Manitoba was a finalist in the Next Great Save competition.
To people like Karen Hourie Ellefson, it’s a piece of family history.
Her great grandparents on her father’s side, Philip and Euphemia Hourie, built the house in 1890 on a site now known as River Lot 70. They received the lot from Hudson Bay Company as a thank you for loyal service.
And Hourie Ellefson spent a lot of time in the home during her childhood.
“Our family home was down the lane from that house,” she told Farms.com. “It was no longer being used and so it became like a big playhouse for my brother and I. We got to go rummage in the house any time we wanted, and my five aunts who grew up in that house left lots of treasures like dolls and books for us to find.”