Garnett House is at 18 Church St N opposite the Library.  It was built as a hotel in 1871 and is now appartments. 

Its mansard roof was the first in St Marys and while not designated an Ontario Heritage Property it is within the proposed St Marys Heritage Conservation District.

In the 1880s St Marys had a dozen hotels. The largest was the Windsor built in 1884. It was demolished in the 1880s and the site is now a Mac's Milk.

The 10th annual Heritage Fair will be held on Friday, February 24, 7:00-9:00 pm at the Friendship Centre, St Marys, 317 James St S. There is no admission charge.

There will be an exhibit of the Museum's expansion now underway. Members of the St Marys Heritage Committee will be available to discuss the proposed Heritage Conservation District

• St Marys Children's Choir
• Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
• St Marys Horticultural Society
• St Marys Agricultural Society
• Individuals and other heritage organizations from southwestern Ontario

The Anstett Jewellers store at 135 Queen St is currently not listed as an Ontario heritage property.  However, it is in the area currently being considered as being designated an Ontario Heritage District.

It was built in 1884 for William Andrews who had been operating a jewellery store in St Marys for 15 years before construction of this building.  His father Henry Andrews had been a stone mason and had come to St Marys in 1857 to work on the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway viaduct over Trout Creek.

The architect was William Williams who was also the architect of the James Carter house at 67 Peel St S, the Church Street bridge, the mansard roof on the stores adjoining the Richard Box house and the extensive renovations to the St James Anglican Church.

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Other St Marys stores not designated as heritage properties in the proposed Heritage District.

The statue of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen, by Montreal sculptor Marcel Braitstein, had been stored in a warehouse in Ottawa following its completion in 1968.   It was finally erected in 1987 in Lind Park, St Marys.

The park was donated to the town in 1934 by St Marys Cement co-founder John Grieve Lind is at Church and Jones Streets a block south of St Marys Town Hall.

Meighen was born in Anderson, Ontario in 1874 and his family moved to a dairy farm at the edge of St Marys in 1886. He attended the 4 room St Marys Collegiate Institute which has been renovated, expanded and renamed Arthur Meighen Public School in his honour. 

Meighen died in 1960 in Toronto and is buried in St Marys cemetary.

St Marys Ontario Presbyterian Church (left) at Widder and Wellington Streets was built in 1881, Holy Name of Mary Roman Catholic Church (right) at King and Widder Streets was built eleven years later in 1892.

On a 19th century map the Presbyterian church is shown as the 'Scotch' church, the Roman Catholic is the 'Irish' church, and St James Anglican is the "English' church.