http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/ Stone Town Heritage, St Marys, Ontario Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:30:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. Architecture Destinations http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/20.html Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:35:30 GMT Today is the anniversary of the first official baseball game played under the Knickerbocker Rules. The game was played in Manhattan in 1845 and these rules evolved into the rules of modern baseball. A St Marys connection to the history of baseball is through Dr Adam E Ford who lived at 157 Queen St W. (built in 1857). He wrote a letter in 1886 to the Sporting Life that detailed a baseball game he witness in Beachville on June 4, 1838, Militia Muster Day. It is the first documented evidence of a baseball game in Canada. Ford was one of the town's first doctors and was St Marys Mayor in... (more) http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Mon, 29 May 2006 15:32:20 GMT This Friday, June 2 at 1 pm there will be a dedication ceremony for the addition to St Marys Museum, 177 Church Street South. Refreshments and tours of the facility follow the ceremony. Guest speaker will be Larry R Pfaff of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Larry Pfaff is the co-author of Early St Marys, author of Historic St Marys and the co-chair of Heritage St Marys. The museum is in a house built in 1854 for George Tracy and given to the town in 1926 by John Grieve Lind. It been home to the museum since 1959. http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/18.html Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:58:55 GMT The 2006 town budget announced this week includes $92,000 to repair the VIA Rail train station roof. The roof is made with cedar shingles. Additional repairs at the station, such as new windows and insulation, will be done next year. The building was built for the Grand Trunk Railway in 1907. Today, along with the VIA ticket office, the station contains a tourism office and St Marys building department. http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:43:10 GMT The town's oldest house at 105 Queen St is for sale for $579,000. The original house was built in 1843 for St Marys founder Thomas Ingersoll. In 1914 a second storey was added as well as the veranda. The house was designated an Ontario Heritage Property in 1987. The 5-bedroom house has most recently been the Hawk-Ridge Hollow Bed and Breakfast. 2005 photo http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:50:12 GMT V & S department store will be opening March 23 at 151 Queen St E. The store has been vacant since July of last year when the ladies wear store closed after operating there for 15 years. The block was built in 1890 as the A.H. Lofft dry goods and clothing store and was designated an Ontario Heritage Property in 1983. There is a panoramic view of the adjacent stores at Queen Street 2003 http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:08:33 GMT 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. http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:08:19 GMT 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 DistrictOther exhibitors include: 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 http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:46:37 GMT 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... (more) http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:06:04 GMT 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... (more) http://stmarysont.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:04:59 GMT 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.