Heritage Kincardine Walking Tour Book

PRINCES STREET
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HURON TERRACE
HARBOUR STREET
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LAMBTON STREET
DURHAM STREET
HURON TERRACE
LAMBTON & DURHAM
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40 788 HURON TERRACE
44°10.671'N / 81°38.241'W
Built by Paddy Walker around
1860, it is one of the earliest
brick homes in Kincardine
along with 217 Harbour Street.
The Walker House and 788 Huron Terrace
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41 806 HURON TERRACE
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44°10.683'N / 81°38.237'W
This fine Queen Anne house was built in 1912. The barn, a much older building, in
local white brick, formerly a farm house, kept the horses used for mail delivery in
Kincardine. The mail was sorted in the loft above the stables. Early tourist cabins
are found at the rear of the property.
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42 814 HURON TERRACE
44°10.692'N / 81°38.230'W
The front of this house is a typical Ontario cottage.
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43 219 LAMBTON - ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
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44°10.723'N / 81°38.243'W
This impressive Italianate building
was built for lawyer W.C.
Loscombe. It became the
summer home of Sir Alexander
Mackenzie from about 1928 and
was called Ardloch Lodge. He
was the president of the Brazilian
Traction, Light and Power Co. now
known as Brascan.
He was
knighted for providing and
Ardloch Lodge, c. 1890
maintaining a hospital in England
during WWI and for persuading
Brazil to enter the war. He died at Ardloch in 1943 and is buried in Kincardine
Cemetery.
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44 257 LAMBTON
44°10.694'N / 81°38.177'W
This is a good example of an Arts and Crafts Cottage with a ‘pebble dash’ exterior.
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45 267 LAMBTON
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44°10.686'N / 81°38.157'W
This is an excellent example of Ontario Gothic architecture featuring a front dormer
with decorative trim and ogee gothic windows, a large front verandah and one and
one-half story construction. The house was built in the 1870’s for $1,200 by Josiah
Vanstone. Note the corner finials and the one over the front bay.
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46 273 LAMBTON - THE ARMOURY
44°10.681'N / 81°38.145'W
This building was originally built to house the town armouries. Note the decorative
brickwork which can be seen on the rear of the building, and the false buttresses
on the side. Reversed crenellation adds to the fortress-like effect.
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47 849 HURON TERRACE
44°10.738'N / 81°38.179'W
The original exterior dates from when it was built in the 1890’s. It was once the
residence of John Tolmie, MP and manager of People’s Salt Works.
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48 860 HURON TERRACE - THE DOLL HOUSE
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44°10.763'N / 81°38.174'W
This home, built in 1859, is one of the few wooden homes to survive. In 1919,
James Geddes moved the north part of this house to the lot next door. What one
sees today are later additions to the original Georgian Revival house, note
particularly the hexagonal
tower with its coloured glass
transoms, bargeboard
patterns, vertical shingle
cladding, ginger-bread trim
and intricate finial all later
embellishments. The house
was completely restored in
1981 by Betty Carter who
never lived in it but used it as
an entertaining pavilion for tea
parties.
‘The Dollhouse’
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49 880 HURON TERRACE
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44°10.783'N / 81°38.159'W
This home was built by George Conley, architect, in 1925 for himself. He used
area fieldstone that he split himself and small beach boulders as construction
material. The upper panels and
garage are finished with ‘pebble
dash’ - broken coloured glass mixed
with small pebbles to glint in the
sunlight. It is a fine example of Arts
and Crafts architecture.
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50 250 DURHAM STREET
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44°10.767'N / 81°38.153'W
This Edwardian House, called “The Manse”, was built for W.J. Bruce in 1911, the
second of four generations of Bruces practising as dentists in Kincardine. It is
another example of Edwardian
sobriety mixed with Queen
Anne Revival style with its
ample porch, tall chimney and
asymmetrical massing. It has
lovely stained glass windows, a
slate roof and an attached
tower on the west side.
The Manse
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51 255 DURHAM STREET - ‘ROSENEATH’
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44°10.770'N / 81°38.128'W
This large Italianate mansion was
built in 1875 for Levi Rightmeyer,
owner of one of Kincardine’s salt
works. Two features of note are
the tower with a belvedere and
the decorative brackets beneath
the eaves.
In 1929 it was
purchased by James Malcolm,
M.P. and chairman of the Andrew
Malcolm Furniture Co. He added
‘Roseneath’
the sunporch on the east side. It
remained in the Malcolm family
until the 1960’s and continues to be called Malcolm Place. At one time beautiful
formal gardens extended east and north to a handsome coach house.
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52 268 DURHAM STREET
44°10.757'N / 81°38.110'W
This residence, originally
known as the ‘Terraced
Garden House’, was built by
A.J. Evans in 1875 and was the
site of many tea parties and
socials.
Note the Second
Empire mansard roof and the
unusual dormers.
An
interesting note is that A.M.
‘The Terraces’
Williamson lived here after
fighting for the North in the
American Civil War. His next
door neighbour to the east was Dr. Solomon Secord, a Civil War rival, who
doctored for the South.
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53 276 DURHAM STREET
44°10.744'N / 81°38.095'W
Built in 1870, this Gothic Revival house was the residence of Dr. Solomon Secord,
a very popular doctor who lived in Kincardine from 1859 until his death in 1910.
During the American Civil War, he enlisted as a surgeon in the army of the Southern
States, despite his opposition to slavery. A sundial on a monument in his honour
stands in front of the Library. After many years of neglect, this home has now been
refurbished.
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54 330 DURHAM STREET
44°10.701'N / 81°38.981'W
This home has Queen Anne and Eastlake influences with its high gabled arches
and intricate fretwork front and back. The fancy doorway is surrounded by
separate glass panes and the single story full width porch. Also of note are the
semi-circular window with stained glass and the classic porch columns. The
house was built by James Malcolm in 1910.
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KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
44°10.694'N / 81°38.935'W
Construction of the present building started in
1876 on the site of an older frame church from
1855.
This Gothic Revival church was
completed in 1879 with the tower finished in
1889 at a total cost of over $20,000. The
building is a copy of European churches of the
10th -12th centuries. Note the pointed arch
windows, high vaulted roof, spire tower with
bell, and buttresses.
The interior was
extensively renovated in 1949 and restored
after smoke damage from an adjacent fire in the
late 1980’s.
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