Notes:
"Known as both Blaincroft and Maple Hall, was built circa 1887 on a lot originally owned by beverage merchant Dugald Brown. It is situated in the historic precinct encompassing Bethune Memorial House (#16), just over the fence, and Finch House (#14) across the street. It is a one and a half storey Victorian cottage of restrained Gothic Revival style. Entrepreneur David LaFranier paid $1,100 for the property in 1896 after his hotel Fraser House was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1887. In 1912, J.J. McNabb, an accountant for the Mickle Dyment Lumber Company, acquired the residence. Frederick Freeman, a barber who had fought with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I, bought the property in 1939 and renamed it Maple Hall. This coincided with his appointment as postmaster of Gravenhurst, a position he held until 1962. It remained in the Freeman family until 1991 when it was bought by Andrew Griffith who with his wife operated it as a Bed and Breakfast. LaFranier House continues to operate as such under owners Marsha and Bryan Blain, who acquired it in 2002."
Blaincroft bed and breakfast is a two storey, rectangular construction with a steep pitch Dutch hip roof; steep center gables on the east, west, and south elevations; clapboard
siding; verandah spaning the south and west elevations; and a single door entrance on the south elevation offset to the west side with a transom and sidelights. There is a
flat-headed window underneath each centre gable on the second storey and paired flat-headed windows to the right of the main entrance on the first storey. There is a one storey garage addtion to the south end of the east elevation with a hip roof, board and batten siding, a garage door to the west side of the south elevation, and a single-door entrance to the east side of the south elevation.
