Green Gables

Green Gables is a 19th-century farmhouse in Cavendish, Canada, now operated as a museum that displays the living quarters of a rural family. The property includes maintained gardens with flower beds, fruit trees, and several walking paths through woods and fields.

The MacNeil family built the farmhouse in the 1830s and worked the land for several generations. Lucy Maud Montgomery visited the property often as a child and later used it as the setting for her novel series about Anne Shirley.

The house takes its name from the original green shutters and serves as a literary landmark for readers of the novel character Anne Shirley. Visitors see the rooms arranged as they appear in the books, with a bedroom under the gable and a kitchen furnished with old cookware.

The museum opens from May through October and sits within a larger park with free parking near the entrance. The paths through the gardens are mostly level, while the forest trails have natural ground and may become slippery after rain.

The author Montgomery first saw the house as a young girl when she lived with her grandparents nearby and visited the residents regularly. Two forest paths on the property still carry the names from her novels and pass through the same tree stands she described in her stories.

Location: Resort Municipality

Part of: L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site

Website: http://pc.gc.ca/fra/lhn-nhs/pe/greengables

GPS coordinates: 46.49167,-63.38500

Latest update: December 13, 2025 18:26