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The Trinity Community Memories project tells the story of the Lester-Garland House, its reconstruction, between September 30, 1996 and June 21, 1997 and the use of the facility since it’s opening on June 25, 1997.
Included is a history of the early wooden house from 1738 to 1764, the building of the first brick house in Newfoundland in the period 1764 to 1766, its renovation/reconstruction from a 2 ½ to a 3 storey home in 1819, the destruction of this home in the mid-1960’s and the reconstruction of it in 1996/97.
Today’s house is used as a Museum and Learning Centre, which consists of a classroom and the Trinity Historical Society Archives. The museum portion of the house is located on the first and a part of the second floor and is furnished, in the bedroom, dining room and kitchen with pieces of the period.
The former living room area now shows the earlier (1738) brick hearth and stone fireplace and has a photographic collection/interpretation of the destruction and reconstruction of the 1819 house. Photographs of the present house and of the various uses to which the facility is put to use are also included.
