The Smith-Carson House

One of the few private residences remaining on Dundas Street, this ornate and unusual Victorian house was built by Waterdown carpenter John Reid; it has been the home of two well-known village residents. During the first half of the twentieth century it was owned by Reeve Richard "Dick" Smith who, after the 1922 fire had destroyed much of the village core, suggested that only fireproof buildings be erected in the centre of the village. Cecil Carson of Fred Carson & Sons bought the property in the 1950s and it remains in the ownership of the Carson family today. Fred Carson & Sons was the company responsible for building the village water-works and for paving the Mount Hope airstrip.