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This stucco-clad brick dwelling in the Georgian architectural tradition was constructed c.1840 on the west part of Markham Township Lot 23, Concession 6. The original 200 acre lot was granted to John Henry Sommerfeldt/Summerfeldt, a member of the Berczy settler group that arrived in Markham in 1794 under the leadership of William Berczy. The spelling of the family name varies from document to document. He was noted as residing on the property in William Berczy’s 1803 census of Markham Township. Summerfeldt received the Crown patent for the lot in 1831, and in that same year sold the property to his son, George Henry Summerfeldt.
The census of 1851 indicates that there were three dwellings on Lot 23, Concession 6 at that time: a two storey brick house where George Henry Summerfeldt Sr., his first wife Clarrisa, and their children lived (the existing house at 10379 Kennedy Road), a one storey slat (possibly plank on plank or vertical plank) house occupied by a tenant farmer, Robert Duncan, and a log house (possibly the original Sommerfeldt dwelling on the property) occupied by another tenant farmer, William Walker.
In 1856, George Henry Summerfeldt, known as Henry Summerfeldt, sold the south 100 acres of Lot 23, Concession 6 to his son, George Henry Summrfeldt Jr. At this point, George Henry Summerfeldt Sr. built a new brick house for his retirement on the north half of the lot (today, 10411 Kennedy Road), and the earlier brick house became the home of his son, George H. Summerfeldt Jr. and his wife, Margaret (today, 10379 Kennedy Road). By 1873, George H. Summerfeldt Jr. had acquired ownership of the entire 200 acres of Lot 23, Concession 6.
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