As a high school and university student I spent my summers working at the MacDonald House Museum as a tour guide. Later I became the Administrator for the museum. I spent a total of 8 summers working for the Lake Ainslie Historical Society at MacDonald House. This experience gave me a vast amount of knowledge about the house and its former residents. Due to my experience as an employee at the museum, much of the information contained within this paper is drawn from tacit knowledge acquired over the course of the eight summers I worked there. Any information from outside sources is cited. In preparation for this architectural study I spent a day in the Registry of Deeds office in Port Hood looking at all the relevant deeds and grants. I was able to get the permission of the Lake Ainslie Historical Society to borrow many of the documents that were in storage in the house so that I would be able to consult them throughout the research process. In January, I spent two afternoons photographing and measuring the house with my father and gathering documents to take down from the museum for the remainder of the winter. In March I photographed the exteriors of two neighbouring houses with similarities in style and construction.