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50 YEARS | 50 STORIES We're Celebrating Our Anniversary! Dedicated to Preserving Our Built Heritage June 2017 Volume 44, No. 2 Heritage News Now 50 YEARS | 50 STORIES Demolition by Neglect Wins Again We’re Celebrating Our Anniversary! By Carolyn Quinn In celebration of our 50th agreed that in order to reach the anniversary this year, Heritage broadest audience, we would post Ottawa is sharing the stories of the stories on our website. 50 buildings that the organization has helped to try and save and Launched on March 1 with the preserve during 50 years of story of the former Union Station, advocacy work championing the new entries are rolling out each city’s historic architecture. week to an enthusiastic response. Photo: Linda Hoad Linda Photo: They will continue coming all year The demolition of 234 O’Connor was The idea for the project came until we reach “50” in December. approved in April 2017 by Planning about a couple of years ago. Committee and City Council in spite of At the time of writing, fifteen earlier Built Heritage Sub-Commitee Heritage Ottawa board member and staff recommendations to refuse Ken Elder gamely undertook the stories—each accompanied by a the application to demolish this required research, and the stories slideshow of fabulous photos— building located in the Centretown have been posted on our web site Heritage Conservation District. soon began to take shape. It was Ottawa is Hosting Another Heritage Conference CAPITALizing on Heritage National Trust and APT Conference Community, Government and Savoir Faire October 11-14, 2017 Ottawa is the place to be for the Canadian Confederation’s 150th anniversary celebrations. For more information check the website: http://www.nationaltrustcanada.ca/ Credit: Ken Elder collection Elder Ken Credit: get-involved/conferences Union Station 1922 1 50 Years | 50 Stories cont’d. at heritageottawa.org. It seems hard to believe today And thanks to a grant that the home of two of Heritage Ottawa is a non-profit from Ontario150 Ottawa’s first and most organization dedicated to the in support of the important settlers, preservation of Ottawa’s built heritage. project, we are Braddish and achieving our goal Linda Hoad Lamira Billings, was Editor of making all the nearly lost. Saving entries available Jan Soetermans the Billings Estate Graphic Designer in French. from demolition was a long Katari Imaging The stories selected and emotional Printing for the project range struggle and one Heritage Ottawa from such grand that galvanized 2 Daly Avenue structures as the East Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2 public support and Block of Parliament Hill PA113360 LAC Studio, Topley Credit: Tel: 613-230-8841 recognition for Heritage and the landmark Aberdeen Fax: 613-564-4428 Ottawa. Thankfully, Pavilion to the more Email: [email protected] Lamira Dow Billings 1873 enough members modest Windsor Smoke Web: www.heritageottawa.org of City Council Shop and Bolton Street double in David Jeanes understood the importance of the President Lowertown. building to Ottawa’s roots that Leslie Maitland While capturing the history of today it operates as a city-owned Past-President Heritage Ottawa’s half century of museum. As our co-founder, (vacant) Bob Phillips, recalled when Vice-President Operations work on behalf of the city’s built heritage, the stories also share writing about the issue in 1981, Linda Hoad “Conservation was becoming Vice-President Programs interesting tidbits about each of the buildings featured and some strangely respectable.” Anne Maheux of the fascinating people who were Treasurer One of the first noteworthy associated with them. Louise Fox public buildings to follow the Secretary In the years leading up to Canada’s construction of the Parliament (vacant) Centennial, for instance, some Buildings was the Carleton Legal Consultant people in government thought the County Gaol on Nicholas Street. Danielle Jones demolition of the East Block in Although we shudder at the Website favour of a modern replacement conditions inmates were subjected Directors: was the best way to handle a to at the time, when the gaol Jay Baltz, Doug Beaton, historic building that needed to be opened in 1863 it represented the Richard Belliveau, Linda Dicaire, latest innovations in penal reform. Ken Elder, Ian Ferguson, brought up to date. To help raise Glen Gower, Robert Martin, awareness about the building’s That trend did not include an Heather McArthur, Hunter McGill, value as a national treasure, the end to public hangings however. Carolyn Quinn, Martin Rice, Heritage Committee of A Capital It was here that Patrick Whelan, Nicole Sammut, Katherine Spencer-Ross. for Canadians (forerunner of the convicted assassin of Thomas Heritage Ottawa acknowledges the Heritage Ottawa) organized D’Arcy McGee, was hanged before financial support of the City of and administered tours of the a crowd of 5,000 people, the last Ottawa and the Ontario Ministry interior. It was the first time in such hanging to occur in Canada. of Culture the building’s history that it was Today, thanks in part to the efforts opened to the public. of Heritage Ottawa’s early activists, 2 the former Carleton County reconstruction, widening the deck Gaol operates as the HI-Ottawa and replicating the bridge’s unique Jail Hostel, offering 21st-century lift mechanism. visitors the chance to spend the night in an authentic jail cell. A more modest but equally important structure to Ottawa’s Not all historic structures that history that was threatened with Heritage Ottawa was involved demolition was Old Ottawa South’s in preserving were buildings. fire hall, No. 10 Graham Station. The Pretoria Avenue Bridge, An elaborate Spanish-Colonial completed in 1918, was designed style building designed by Ottawa by the internationally renowned architect Werner Ernst Noffke in Strauss Bascule Bridge Company 1920, it was named in honour of Chicago, Illinois. By the late of Ottawa Fire Chief John W. 1960s, time and rust damage Graham. Graham was known for Wikimedia Commons Johnston, Jeff Credit: meant costly repairs were needed. his progressive ideas and he played a Carleton County Gaol Plans for repairs were soon being vital role in modernizing the Ottawa replaced by plans for two high- Fire Department and introducing These are but brief synopses level arterial spans, one on each new safety measures. By the 1960s, of some of the many stories side of the Queensway, that would pressure to streamline the service currently unrolling on our website. cut through the Glebe and Golden saw smaller fire stations like No. 10 More detailed versions can be Triangle neighbourhoods. The Graham Station decommissioned. found there, along with several proposal ignited a battle that Recognizing that a new use for the others not included here, and lasted for ten years. The campaign station would need to be found if all are accompanied by a range to save the historic bridge attracted the building was to be preserved, of interesting photographs and such Heritage Ottawa activists as Mary-Anne Phillips, a co-founding illustrations. architectural consultant Harold member of Heritage Ottawa, Kalman and conservation architect spearheaded a campaign that was Visit heritageottawa.org/50-years- John Leaning. In the end, the endorsed by then Mayor Lorry 50-stories to read the entries we right decision was made when Greenberg. With financial assistance have posted. And check back the city opted to replace the from the City, the building regularly as more stories are bridge with a heritage-sensitive reopened in 1977 as the Ottawa being unveiled on a weekly basis. design. A careful dismantling of South Community Centre. Notifications of all new stories are the Nepean sandstone allowed its posted on Facebook and Twitter. Heritage Ottawa is proud to have played a role in preserving some of Ottawa’s most beloved and important heritage buildings over the past 50 years. We appreciate the ongoing support of you, our members and friends, as we celebrate our anniversary and look forward to our next 50 years. Carolyn Quinn is a former president Clifford M. Johnston/ Library and Archives Canada PA-056845 Canada and Archives Library M. Johnston/ Clifford of Heritage Ottawa and current member of the Board of Directors Photo: Photo: who is enjoying her role in bringing Pretoria Avenue Bridge 1934 50 YEARS | 50 STORIES to life. 3 Ottawa Architectural Conservation Awards – overview By Adam Krajewski Editor’s note: The author, a Carleton University student, undertook undertook to research and write this article as part of a practicum. Heritage conservation is a new interest for Adam, and he offers an interesting perspective on a program we often take for granted. 2017 marked yet another successful awards ceremony for the Ottawa Architectural Conservation awards. Running concurrently with Heritage Day in February every other year, these awards serve to celebrate and exemplify the excellent work in the preservation and restoration of 35 Armstrong Street (Richmond Lodge) 1986 Award of Excellence Ottawa’s heritage buildings. the abandoned 1941 red-brick new space for the promotion of The past three ceremonies have City Works building. For decades creative thought and innovation. taken place in historic renovated the building served as offices It is now the place where new buildings: Arts Court on Daly and repair shops for the fleet of businesses and unique start-ups Avenue, the Horticulture Building trucks owned by the city, as well can go to develop their ideas and at Landsowne, and this year at as a storage space, before finally find support. The story of the the Innovation Centre at Bayview being closed down, boarded up, Innovation Centre is an example Yards. Prior to that, the event was and left forgotten until finally of what the Ottawa Architectural held at Ottawa City Hall, an easily being reinvented as a completely Conservation Awards strive to accessible and convenient, yet celebrate and promote.
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