This 2-storey frame house is a fine example of a structure, which combines elements of both the Italianate and the Queen Anne styles. Features such as the decorative cornice brackets, segmented head sashes and decorative bargeboard and porch columns all lend gracious accents to this clapboard clad home. An elaborate 2-storey bay window added after 1897 features a highly decorated 3rd storey gable with a unique key-hole-shaped frame containing three windows

Henry Laishley was involved in the lucrative potash industry, buying ash from settlers who were clearing their lands, then exporting it for the making of soap, glass, and baking soda. Laishley also owned and operated several bush farms in the Chaffeys Lock area. The Guthrie House, built by John Stanton and John Grail, beginning in 1886, as purchased by Augustus Coon for his son Dr. Darius A. Coon, who used it as a home and office for his medical practice until 1941.