Thompson House (Brigus)
Thompson House (Brigus)![[Thompson House: Image]](011.jpg)
Set high on the edge of a rock overlooking the pond, the Thompson House is the most striking house in Brigus. But for all that it is also a very typical house. The saltbox shape of the roof, the two-and-a-half storeys, the centre hall plan all make it a fairly standard Nineteenth Century Newfoundland house. The chimneys are unusual in that they are set within the house, behind the roofridge and have wickets (small, roofed structures designed to prevent leaks). The rounded roof form found on the front porch was once usual in Newfoundland (it is found on the 1819 Commissariat in St.John's) and is seen on at least one other Brigus house. It is said that James Whelan built the house for himself about 1872. After Whelan it was occupied by a Dr. Duncan and acquired by the Thompson family sometime before the turn of the century.