Built in 1957 for Cobourg Railroad Director Harry Mason, and designed by Kivas Tully (Victoria Hall, St. Lawrence Market) and designed in the Victorian Villa style, was originally only two storeys with a flat roof. The villa was owned briefly in the later half of the 19th century by Major David Campbell (of whom Campbellford is named), until it was purchased in 1901 by American businessman William Abbott. Abbott immediately got to work expanding the villa. A third storey was added along with the portico and porch giving the Victoria Villa a Beaux Arts Flare, a style much more popular in the USA. The Abbotts continued to use it as a summer home until the 1950s. The home was sold and in 1952 opened as the Sidbrook Hospital, a private health care facilty with beds for 38 chronic care patients. The hospital continued to operated until 2002. The building remains one of the few surviving examples of Beaux Arts/Victorian Villa within the town of Cobourg, and today is a designated Historical Home and looking towards conversion into Condos.
Location wise it was pretty small, so it made for a perfect solo trip, also considering that the place is surrounded by private homes, a group might have raised more attention then one random person wandering.
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