A pair of 100 year old houses are coming home.

A group in Manitou is grateful to see the homes of Nellie McClung return to the community from the closed Archibald Museum.

"We never presumed we'd ever be lucky enough to get them back," Bringing Nellie Home committee member Al Thorleifson explains. "We're pretty pleased."

He says both buildings have been aged gracefully after 130 years, and even include some of the original furniture.

"It's pretty delicate work, moving something that age," he says. "And everything moved perfectly."

Funds raised by the group have paid for the transport of the McClung House, where famed author and women's rights activist wrote her classic novel, 'Sowing Seeds Of Danny'.

"So she became the best-selling author in Canada while she was living in Manitou, writing books out of her den," founding member of the Nellie McClung Foundation, Bette Mueller explains.

The committee also arranged for the transport of the Hazel cottage where McClung boarded as a young teacher.

With the help of a number of grants and private donations, Mueller says they have raised over $100,000 of their $150,000 goal.

Along with a tourist attraction, Mueller says the houses will be invaluable education tools.

"My dream is to have lessons there for students, to come and see where she lived and wrote her books," she says, adding McClung appears in grade six and nine provincial curriculum.

Thorleifson notes there's a lot of volunteer work needed moving forward to clean the house and catalogue artifacts.