About Peake House

The Honourable James Ellis Peake built this elegant brick house in 1835-36 near his stores and wharves and with a view of the harbour where his ships came in.

Built of Island bricks laid in Flemish bond (a length of brick next to an end of brick alternately in each row) on the facade, it is a symmetrical building topped at a later date with a rounded dormer. An attractive fanlight and a door with fine trim lead from an inside vestibule to a center hall.

The Peake family operated an extensive shipbuilding trade between Plymouth, England, and Prince Edward Island, and James Peake the elder was one of the most influential men in the early colony.