Links Directly Back to Jacob Hespeler There are very few remaining buildings of any kind that can be directly linked back to Jacob Hespeler. The stone structure, a dovecote, on the Forbes property, previously the Jacob Hespeler Farm, is one of those buildings and it needs to be preserved. It is a Dovecote A dovecote basically is a structure to host domestic pigeons and the only real requirement is there is a spot for the pigeons to enter and leave from at the top of the building. There are only 2 others known in Ontario. The developer hired a consulting firm, to determine if the building was a dovecote. The flawed study stated it wasn’t. The study ignored/minimized, Winfield Brewster, Hespeler historian,   writings from his 1951 Publication Hespeler, New Hope on p13 which stated, “And the U-shaped stone barns of which one square tower still remains. The ground floor of this tower housed ducks, the second chickens while the top floor was a pigeon loft.” The consul...