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Duncan~Quinn House Bed and Breakfast
Enjoy gracious hospitality with modern amenities in a Georgian style house

Jim and Susan Hoyle invite you to experience our warm Niagara hospitality. Whether you visit our town to savour the ambience of world-class theatre, award-winning wineries or for a romantic getaway, the Duncan~Quinn House will offer you a place to relax and unwind on your vacation.

Duncan-Quinn House was inspired by Colonial days gone by. The inn is similar to the Old Williamsburg Colonial houses and early Niagara-on-the Lake homes of yester year. The interior schemes that bring the most pleasure are those that evoke a sense of the past in their combination of subdued colors, elegant lines, and motifs borrowed from traditional late 19th-century English colonial, and French design. By using a combination of period, vintage, and reproduction English, Canadian and American Colonial furnishings the experience is complete. With the addition of Oak floors, mullioned high windows, reproduction antique doors, high ceilings, and hand-stenciled furniture, the fantasy takes shape. Classic Georgian Colonial exterior architecture with dormer windows, and clapboard siding all lend itself to this period and style. We have strived to create quaint, rooms ensuring our quests feel this little bit of history. Duncan-Quinn House offers comfort and tranquility while you stay in historic Niagara-on-the Lake.

Historic/Heritage Details: Duncan-Quinn House is located on a quiet street. Minutes from downtown. Only a few steps away is the famous Colonel Butler's Cemetery. Colonel Butler was a very important historical figure in Niagara-on the-Lake, then known as Newark. John Butler was born in New London, Conn. in 1728.He saw action at Ticonderoga, Lake George and he was part of the capture of Fort Frontenac, Niagara and Montreal. During the peace following the conquest of Canada, John took up management of his estate, some 27 thousand acres. He then led a detachment of Indians from Niagara at the Battle of Oriskany in August of 1777. His success led to raising the Corps of Rangers that served with the Indians on the Frontiers (Butler's Rangers). At the end of revolution he returned to farming and became one of the leaders in the settlement on the Niagara Penn. . John Butler died at Niagara ,May 12th 1796. John Butler can truly be described as one of the Founding Fathers of Upper Canada.
Duncan~Quinn House Bed and Breakfast
530 Butler Street
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
L0S 1J0
(905) 468-2196
FAX: (905) 468-2197
Web: http://www.duncan-quinn.on.ca/
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