Railway Hotel - Maynooth Station Ontario

Station Building - Maynooth Station Ontario

Things To Not Do

Gone are the gorgeous double brackets (look for twin pale brick areas at the corners of the house) from this pretty, modest italianate, replaced by 'low maintenance' vinyl fascia, soffits, and moulding. Some things just shouldn't ever be done...

A Very Sad Story

Would you move to Detroit if the city gave you a free house?

The continual shift, change, and decline of the American economy has given rise to urban wastelands of abandoned inner city homes. Virtually every major urban center in the USA has swaths of urban decay as pictured to some degree... Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis - St. Paul, Chicago, Atlanta... The list goes ever on. Many of the images are utterly heartbreaking, these magnificent homes that have stood tall and proud for well over a hundred years, now left to decay and fall into ruin.

Neo Gothic Farmhouse - Sebastopol Ontario

Watson's Mill - Manotick Ontario

Watson's Mill - Manotick Ontario

Watson's Mill - Manotick Ontario

Watson's Mill - Manotick Ontario

Watson's Mill - Manotick Ontario

Commercial Italianate - Manotick Ontario

Alex Spratt House - Manotick Ontario

A fine example of mid-nineteenth century classical revival (or neo-classical) architecture. The colours are most likely true to the original colours, or colours used in the era of construction. If this house were located south of the border, it would be referred to as Federal style architecture. This is the house that the owners of the later named 'Watson Mill' in Manotick lived in. 

Click this link to see a photo of a magnificent Federal style house in the United States... any similarities?

First meeting house - US Federal vernacular

McCulla House - North Gower Ontario

The Oxford Hotel - Tavistock Ontario

The Oxford Hotel - Tavistock Ontario

The Oxford Hotel - Tavistock Ontario

The Oxford Hotel - Tavistock Ontario

The Oxford Hotel - Tavistock Ontario

The Oxford Hotel - Tavistock Ontario

Impressive red brick Italianate - Tavistock Ontario