Green Tomorrow

Devereaux House was on the corner of lands owned by the Town of Halton Hills, falling to pieces and due for demolition. In 2004 a citizen’s committee started raising money to renovate it, but when they started looking closely, they found that it was almost entirely original, down to the traditional milk paint. “It was like the Antiques Roadshow,” Ann Lawlor told Leslie Scrivener of the Star, “We had no idea what we had.” So they are carefully restoring rather than renovating, but also demonstrating that old buildings can be green buildings.

You can’t add a lot of insulation to a building like this and you really shouldn’t replace the windows, but one can put in ground sour…