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Owen Sound, originally known as Sydenham, was first surveyed 1 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY STATION 9 MACLEAN ESTATE BED & BREAKFAST 16 RIXON HOUSE in 1840. The community gained its current name in 1851, was 1198 1st Ave East D 404 9th St East 894 5th Ave East incorporated as a Town in 1857 and as a City in 1920. Much of Rail service to Owen Sound began Dr. John A. Hershey built this house Built in the late 1850s, this Georgian style home was used for Owen Sound’s history is briefly explained by following these in 1873 and included grain elevators, in 1899 for his family and his medical church services until 1874 (traces of the entry door can still be self-guided tours, with suggested routes highlighted on the freight sheds and a roundhouse, practice, and patients would enter seen on the north façade), then as a private school, a grammar map. the foundations of which can still through the 4th Ave East door. Dr. school and a boarding house. Sold to the Rixons in 1888, it be seen at 13th Street. This modern Hershey would also teach medical stayed in the family until 1973. Many of these sites are designated under the Ontario station was built in 1946, part of students at his practice, including the Heritage Act, marked on the tours with a D . Sites marked a pilot program to modernize famous Dr. Norman Bethune. When Dr. 17 BUTCHART ESTATE with B are part of the Freedom Trail, a trail dedicated CPR facilities after World War II. Hershey died unexpectedly in 1921, his to discovering Owen Sound’s Black History. For more Passenger service ended in 1970, practice was taken over by Dr. George 919 5th Ave East D information, visit our website at www.owensoundtourism.ca This Queen Anne Revival style freight service in the mid-1990s. Robert Miller, who practiced until 1932. house was built in 1891 for David and Vacant for many years, the City The building is now used as MacLean MacLean Estate Martha Butchart, influential in the purchased the Station in 2010 and CPR Station Estate Bed and Breakfast, with rooms Bed & Breakfast development of the Portland cement East Side Tour restoration is underway. named after each doctor. industry in Canada. David’s brother, � Robert P. Butchart and his wife Jenny, 2 STATION HOTEL 10 FORMER KNOX UNITED CHURCH moved to British Columbia in 1902, ��th St E (Canning St) 1199 1st Ave East 890 4th Ave East forming the Vancouver Portland Built circa 1897 near the Canadian Pacific Railway yard, the Knox Presbyterian formed in 1846. This Cement Co. In 1921 Robert closed Station Hotel served as a boarding house, hotel and as overflow structure was built in 1873 and enlarged his quarry and Jenny developed the waiting area. There was also a restaurant that served patrons in 1886. With Congregationalist Union, it famed Butchart Gardens. Butchart Estate r from the main floor. became a United Church in 1925. In 2012, e Knox United merged with Division Street v � 18 ROW HOUSING i ��th St E (Russell St) United to become Georgian Shores United R �� 3 BETH EZEKIEL SYNAGOGUE 938 to 1000 5th Ave East P �� 313 11th St East D Church (see #8). The building is now home Built in the late 1800s, this collection of three row housing m Owen Sound has been home to a to Harmony Centre Owen Sound, whose groups shows mixture of styles, including Gothic Revival and a � �� Former Knox h �nd Ave E Jewish population for as long as motto is “preserving this place for our Italianate, with a variety of architectural elements, such as n �� United Church community to share, create, and perform”. e �� there has been a town here. Regular gables, gingerbread trim and bay windows. d �rd Ave E services were held by 1904, first in y ��th St E (Peel St) homes, then in rented sites. In 1947, S �st Ave E (Marsh St) 11 THE MANSE 19 REGISTRY OFFICE this Calvary Church was purchased 895 4th Ave East 1240 4th Ave East and named in honour of Isaac Built in the early 1870s, this home was used as a manse for The County of Grey Registry Office (Water St) (Bay St) Ezekiel Cadesky, a driving force in Knox Presbyterian Church around 1900, and is now apartments. was built in 1855 by contractor John the establishment of the present Originally Georgian in style, with simple design elements, two Frost, who later became Mayor of Beth Ezekiel Synagogue synagogue. additions added the large tower, bay windows, and hipped roof. Owen Sound. In 1923, an addition was constructed and in 1961, the � 4 SALVATION CORNERS 12 GAMBREL ROOF HOUSE building was used as municipal Intersection of 10th St & 4th Ave East 887 4th Ave East Old Courthouse, Jail & offices during construction of the This intersection has been dubbed “Salvation Corners” because Real estate and insurance agent William R. McColl owned this Registry Office new City Hall. � � of the four remarkable limestone churches that anchor this house in the early part of the 20th century. This house, along ��th St E �rd Ave E (Division St) spot, just one block east of “Damnation Corners”. with several others in the neighbourhood, has an interesting �nd Ave E � �th Ave E (Hill St) �th Ave E 20 MAITLAND HOUSE � �� double-gable gambrel roof which is a sign of a common builder. 1258 3rd Ave East � 5 CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Originally built in 1874 as a Regency cottage with verandahs r e 386 10th St East 13 RYERSON SCHOOL facing both 3rd Avenue East and the harbor, it was transformed v i The Church of Christ Disciples was formed in 1842 and they 795 5th Ave East into this East Coast Queen Anne Revival style in 1885 by Jim R P built this church in 1889 in the style of an early English country In 1868, Boyd St School was built at a and Annie Maitland. Jim was in the lumber business and Annie �� church. In 1957 the Church of the Nazarene bought the building. cost of $1,905. The playground across was a granddaughter of Richard Carney, the first mayor of � the street was home to curling and Owen Sound. �th St E (Baker St) 6 ST. GEORGE’S ANGLICAN CHURCH skating rinks from 1888 to 1929. The m �� �� �� school was enlarged several times, a 1049 4th Ave East and in 1910 it was renamed Ryerson 21 GREY COUNTY JAIL h �� The Anglican congregation was established 1259 3rd Ave East n �� in Owen Sound in 1846. This church was built School. In 1990, it was converted into The Grey County Jail was built in 1853, a requirement for the e P P a 36-unit apartment building. d W �� in 1881, patterned after St. Mary’s Church in new County’s formation the next year. A total of three hangings y Bristol, England. The parish hall was built in took place in the Jail, the first on December 5, 1884; a 55-year- S Ryerson School 1898. An addition was built in 1968. A complete old blind man named “Cook Teets” was convicted of poisoning �rd Ave E (Scrope St) (Scrope E Ave �rd �th Ave E (Boyd St) (Boyd E Ave �th 14 CRAFTSMAN HOUSE �th Ave E (Murdoch St) (Murdoch E Ave �th St) (Poulett E Ave �nd �th St E (Union St) restoration of the steeple was undertaken in 832 5th Ave East his wife, though later her mother confessed to the crime. �� 2010-2011. Robert and Estelle Wright had this house built in 1923 by local St George’s contractor Telford & King. Wright was a pattern maker at the 7 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Owen Sound Iron Works, and later a foreman at Wm. Kennedy 22 OLD GREY COUNTY COURT HOUSE & Sons. An example of the Craftsman Style of architecture. 1235 3rd Ave East D 990 4th Ave East Built in 1853, this example of Canada West Classical Revival is Interpretive Plaque W Washrooms P Parking Owen Sound’s first Baptist congregation was established in constructed of rubble stone with golden quarried limestone 1853. Their first building on this site was erected in 1879. This D Designated Heritage Site B Black History Site 15 F.N. D’ORR LEPAN COTTAGE overlaying the front façade. The large two-storey tower is a stone church was built in 1903. 861 5th Ave East D later addition, made to the south end in 1885. Street Numbering System Frederick Nicholas D’Orr LePan In 1909, Owen Sound’s street names were changed to numbers 8 GEORGIAN SHORES UNITED CHURCH opened a general store in Owen 23 FIRE HALL by Mayor F.W. Harrison (See West Side Tour, #5), who had lived 997 4th Ave East Sound in 1848. Born in Ireland, LePan 1209 3rd Ave East in New York City and favoured the system. The Sydenham River The first church on this site, called Division Street Presbyterian, was a liquor and wine merchant In 1850, the Village of Sydenham appointed 30 volunteers and divides the City into east and west sides, avenues run north- was erected in 1857. The current church was built in 1886. The who also sold groceries and other purchased fire fighting equipment. In 1891, a new fleet of horse south, streets east-west. Addresses are even numbered on the congregation joined the United Church of Canada in 1925. provisions. This Regency Cottage drawn equipment was acquired for the Fire Hall located next to west sides of avenues and on the north sides of streets; each In 2012, Division Street United merged with Knox United to was built about 1865 by LePan.