The Trinity Community Memories project tells the
story of the Lester-Garland House, its
reconstruction, between September 30, 1996 and June
21, 1997 and the use of the facility since it’s
opening on June 25, 1997.
Included is a history of the early wooden house
from 1738 to 1764, the building of the first brick
house in Newfoundland in the period 1764 to 1766,
its renovation/reconstruction from a 2 ½ to a 3
storey home in 1819, the destruction of this home in | the mid-1960's and the reconstruction of it in 1996
/97.
Today’s house is used as a Museum and Learning
Centre, which consists of a classroom and the
Trinity Historical Society Archives. The museum
portion of the house is located on the first and a
part of the second floor and is furnished, in the
bedroom, dining room and kitchen with pieces of the
period.
The former living room area now shows the earlier
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