Riverside Apartments
93, Gore Street East, Perth, Ontario, K7H, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
1989/04/11
Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2008/01/09
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
The Riverside Apartments, erected circa 1850, is a three-and-a-half-storey building constructed of local sandstone. It is located in the heart of downtown Perth on Gore Street and remains an integral part of Perth's downtown heritage streetscape.
The Riverside Apartments have been recognized for their heritage value by the Town of Perth, By-law 2814, on 11 April 1989.
Valeur patrimoniale
Built circa 1850 on Cockburn Island in the heart of downtown Perth by local merchant John Doran, the apartments were built in the restrained late Georgian manner which, executed in local sandstone, characterized mid-19th-century commercial buildings in Perth. The stonework is of very high order, and is a fine example of the legacy left to Perth by the Scottish masons responsible for its construction. John Doran, from Wexford County, Ireland, purchased Lots 1 and 2 in 1848 and had the Riverside Apartments constructed a few years afterward. Doran was described in the 1857/1858 Canadian Directory as an auctioneer, dealer in dry goods, hardware, groceries, and produce. As a merchant, Doran would have seen advantages to building on Cockburn Island, which is in the centre of the Tay Canal and along the main thoroughfare, Gore Street. When Doran moved to Pembroke in 1870, he leased the building to Thomas Jamieson, who operated a saddlery establishment. The building was eventually sold to William John Clements in 1885 and Arthur James Matheson, a popular Perth politician who served for a time as the Ontario Minister of Finance, in 1900. Riverside Apartments reflect the sense of purpose and pride in the growing commercial development of Perth in the mid-19th century, and extends the community's rich tradition of main-street architecture.
Sources: Katherine Ashenburg, Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter and Ross, 1996) 122-123; Town of Perth By-law 2814; Heritage Perth.
Éléments caractéristiques
Character defining elements that define the heritage value of the Riverside Apartments include the:
- front facade of regularly-coursed squared stone with chiselled quoins, with the ends and rear consisting of random rubble
- end walls which rise to parapet fire gables with cut stone copings carried down onto cut stone corbels which then bracket the moulded wood cornice and frieze
- stone chimneys which extend above the parapet
- symmetrical fenestration with six over six double hung windows on upper floors and large storefront windows dating from the late 19th or early 20th-century on the street level
- orientation on Cockburn Island in the heart of downtown Perth's heritage streetscape.
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Ontario
Autorité de reconnaissance
Administrations locales (Ont.)
Loi habilitante
Loi sur le patrimoine de l'Ontario
Type de reconnaissance
Désignation du patrimoine municipal (partie IV)
Date de reconnaissance
1989/04/11
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
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Thème - catégorie et type
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
Historique
- Résidence
- Édifice à logements multiples
Architecte / Concepteur
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Constructeur
John Doran
Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Town Hall, Perth, Ontario
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Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
HPON06-0077
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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