Name/Title
Johnston Cottage | Roosevelt Campobello International Park | Campobello Island, New BrunswickDescription
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.120:
JOHNSTON COTTAGE
During the 1890's the Campobello Company sold the lot to Dr. Sydney Lord who had the cottage built about 1902. His wife, Ann Sturgis Lord, inherited the Campobello home of her father, Russell Sturgis, in 1913. So the Lords sold the cottage. After being bought and sold several times, its title passed in 1937 to Leroy M. Johnston and finally, in 1969, to the Park Commission. A oneand-a-half story wooden cottage with gable roof, the Johnston had a dormer punctuating each slope. Because of its poor condition, not only was the roof reshingled in 1978, but raised to provide space for a sitting room, two bedrooms, each with a bath, on the second floor. Like the Wells-Shober Cottage, the Johnston has been repainted all white since 1969. Since 1978, the veranda has led to a combined living room-dining room, with kitchen and bedroom downstairs. The Johnston Cottage is not as near to the other four cottages, being across the street (Route 774) from the office and staff parking area. The main purpose of this building, just like that of the Prince and Wells-Shober is to provide bedrooms and some meals for guests at conferences at the R.C.I.P. The Admiral William Fitzwilliam Owen House, on Campobello, was not declared a National Historic site by the Canadian Historic Sites and Monuments Board either in 1934 or 1962, but the Canadian Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office in 1992 accepted a report stating that the R.C.I.P.'s establishment in 1964 was a "turning point" in the history of Campobello, and that the F.D.R. Cottage itself, as well as all five cottages as a district, are "landmarks" and Canadian National Historic Sites. NHSD, JCB