Before & After: They Found the Plans for Their Family Farmhouse—and Made a Surprising Discovery

Having grown up in this historic Ontario farmhouse, the owners, two siblings, have long known about the local lore attached to it. For starters, the house had been previously owned by Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson Lay and his wife, Beth. “We had a family dog that was named after the admiral,” says the older sibling. “There was sort of a mythology around the house for our parents.”