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Kate Reid, wife of Hayter Reid, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and later General Manager of CP Hotels, obtained important commissions redecorating CP properties and like many well-connected Montrealers, came to St. Andrews around the turn of the century. Kate Reid was behind a wholesale redecorating of the Algonquin in 1905. She opened "The Inn," the former home of New Brunswick Railway General Manager Henry Osburn at Indian Point, in 1907. The Inn was a rustic annex to the Algonquin, self-consciously quaint and old-fashioned, offering a simplicity and elegance that had worked well for the Algonquin itself. In 1918 the CPR exchanged the Inn property for the old Poor House lands and expanded its golf course.In 1913 the Reids built Pansy Patch on Carleton Street next to the Algonquin. The St. Andrews Beacon provided the following striking description:
"Perhaps the most striking of all the new cottages is that of Mrs. Hayter Reid, of Montreal, just alongside the Algonquin Hotel. It is of old English style, imitating the thatched roof of the old country houses of rural England. The walls outside are mortared, and the narrow windows, the tower with vane, and the many gables are all calculated to carry out the design of the owner. The interior is even more old English than the exterior. The ceilings are arched, the timbers showing the adze marks, even to the ponderous locks, and even more ponderous keys, is in keeping . . . . Mrs. Hayter Reid, who has a dominion wide reputation as an artist, has given her personal attention to the erection and dedication of this dwelling.