Properties Eligible for Listing on the Heritage Register of the City of Kawartha Lakes
Properties Eligible for Listing on the Heritage Register of the City of Kawartha Lakes Under Regulation 9/06 of the Ontario Heritage Act, a property is significant for its cultural heritage value or interest and is eligible for designation if it has physical, historical, associative or contextual value and meets any one of the nine criteria set out below: The property has design value or physical value because it is a) a rare, unique, representative or early example of a style, type, expression, material or construction method, b) displays a high degree of craftsmanship or artistic merit, or c) demonstrates a high degree of technical or scientific achievement. The property has historical value or associative value because it, a) has direct associations with a theme, event, belief, person, activity, organization or institution that is significant to a community, b) yields, or has the potential to yield, information that contributes to an understanding of a community or culture, or c) demonstrates or reflects the work or ideas of an architect, artist, builder, designer or theorist who is significant to a community. The property has contextual value because it: a) is important in defining, maintaining or supporting the character of an area, b) is physically, functionally, visually or historically linked to its surroundings, or c) is a landmark. The following properties have been identified as having met at least one of the criteria. 26 Jakeman Street, Bethany (Bethany Orange Lodge) 26 Jakeman Street in Bethany has cultural heritage value as the former Orange Lodge building the village. This building, which was moved to its present site in 1912 to make way for the CPR tracks, was the home of Loyal Orange Lodge 1022 and is reflective of many Orange Lodge buildings constructed in rural Ontario in the late nineteenth century which were typically plain structures with limited architectural decoration.
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