Elam Martin Farmstead, 680 Woolwich Street
The Elam Martin farmstead, now owned by the City of Waterloo, consists of 17 buildings on what is now 18½ acres. It is representative of Mennonite farms in Waterloo, which have mostly disappeared within the city limits. The main house, a two-storey buff brick house with a fieldstone foundation, was built in 1856 in the Mennonite Georgian style. It has a gable roof with a quarter-round moulded brick cornice. There is also a doddy house, built adjacent to the main house, in 1870. The bank barn was built in 1860 and elevated onto its current foundations in the 1890s. The silos date from around 1920 and 1960. The other outbuildings include a drive shed built in 1890, a schnitz house, a smoke house and privy, a spring house, a wood/tool shed, and a wagon shed, all built around 1905, a butchering shed dating from 1914, and a wash house from 1917.
