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The Towle Rooming house was located at 7579 Glover Road. Widowed Mrs. Eliza Towle had run the Commercial Hotel in Fort Langley. With the BCER Interurban line being built, she saw an opportunity and built this large house on this piece of property on the most northern part of what was the Hudson's Bay Company farm. She hoped to provide room and board for railway workers, but she died in January 1909 before the house or railway were complete. Her son George completed the house, and then used it as a boarding house. When he passed in 1920 it then went to his brother Stanley, who resided there until 1934. It sat on its prominent site, in much of its original condition with wraparound verandah, chamfered porch columns and bell-cast hip roof, until it burned down in December 2005.