It could be the perfect property for house-hunters who long for a simpler time before cookie-cutter suburbs and micro condos.

An 1880s log house on the market for $1.6 million north of Orangeville has all kinds of rustic charm on its own. It sits on a 10.5-acre parcel on Highway 10 south of Highway 89, which includes a small collection of historic 19th-century buildings, among them the original town hall of Mono, Ont., which was moved there from nearby Camilla.

Owner Barb Kelly told the Star on Tuesday that she is not entirely sold on selling the parcel, which is actually two properties purchased in 2018.

Kelly said she still has a vision for opening her own pioneer village and is on the lookout for a school house to add to the town hall, the 1895 St. James Anglican church and parish hall, and a standalone workshop that is equipped with electricity and heating.

Kelly said she is using original materials to rebuild the part of an 1890s barn damaged in a storm in April 2018.

A long-time resident of the Mono area about an hour and a quarter from Toronto, she listed her home because she had an eye on another property but was disappointed when that property sold to someone else.

The log house has been carefully reassembled piece by piece and is surrounded by century-old trees. It has two bathrooms and a basement suite with a separate entrance, main floor laundry and a new high-efficiency gas furnace and air-conditioning. There’s a mud room and a formal dining room that overlooks a meadow. There is also a pond and a waterfall.

“We plan to assemble the buildings in a really cool way on the 10-acre property,” said Kelly.

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The house and accompanying buildings have been on the market for about three weeks, but reports in the Orangeville Banner and website Narcity have brought a deluge of interest.

“I must have had 100 people here in the last couple of days,” said Kelly.

The church hasn’t been in use as such since at least 1978, said Mono chief administrative officer and clerk Mark Early. The town hall where he works was built in 1975, he said.

Kelly said she has spent about $100,000 upgrading the property and $250,000 on rebuilding the barn.