Municipal Heritage Site

Satterthwaite House

McCreary, Manitoba

Primary elevation, from the south southwest of Satterthwaite House, McCreary area, 2005

Primary elevation, from the south southwest of Satterthwaite House, McCreary area, 2005

Photo: Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport, 2005

Built
1895
Recognized
1994
By
Local government

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Description

Satterthwaite House is a single-storey log dwelling completed in 1895 alongside the Burrows Trail near McCreary. The municipal designation applies to the house and its grounds.

Heritage value

The Satterthwaite House, a reconstruction of a ca. 1895 building, recalls a brief era in prairie history when land transportation, including stagecoach service, followed a network of roughly etched, cross-country routes, and adjacent dwellings served as stopping houses for travellers. Such became the role of the Satterthwaite log cabin, built by Henry Howson next to a trail established between Arden and Dauphin in the early 1890s by Theodore Arthur Burrows, a noted Dauphin businessman and Manitoba politician. The sturdy house, of dovetail log construction, a technology brought to Manitoba by Anglo-Ontario settlers, was acquired by Jane and Thomas Satterthwaite in 1899. Now a museum, the cabin was reconstructed in 1994-95 according to original specifications and period methods.

SourceRural Municipality of McCreary By-law No. 1778, February 9, 1994

Character‑defining elements

Key elements that define the heritage character of the Satterthwaite House site include:

  • its location about six kilometres south of McCreary at a spot where the historic Burrows Trail intersects with Highway 5 and the building's placement, facing west, on spacious grounds with a mature shelter belt

Key exterior elements that define the dwelling's sturdy log construction and utilitarian simplicity include:

  • the modestly sized, one-storey, rectangular gable-roofed form
  • the walls of unfinished hand-hewn squared poplar logs held together with dovetail notches
  • other straightforward expressions of materials and construction such as exposed floor joists and rafter ends, sawn vertical board siding on the gable ends, abundant use of chinking, etc.
  • the single centred front batten door

Key elements that define the dwelling's interior character include:

  • the open one-room plan
  • the exposed frame, including two posts braced at the ridge board and notched to interconnect with tie beams and the unfinished log walls, with built-in shelving at one end, and plank floor

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Location

McCreary, Manitoba, R0J, Canada

50.70937° N, 99.48618° W

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From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, as last updated on December 12, 2025. The register’s text is shown word for word.