Heritage Designation Archives - Architectural Conservancy of Ontario – Port Hope

65 Ward Street & Heritage Property

1 Apr 202219 Apr 2022

By Bruce Bowden ACO Port Hope is again dealing with issues surrounding the 65 Ward Street heritage property. This past June, Southbridge submitted planning applications for a high-rise long-term care…

The Port Hope Heritage Listing Project Update

30 Mar 202219 Apr 2022

By Bruce Bowden In April, 2019, Susan Layard, co-chair of the ACO Port Hope Advocacy Committee, was invited to serve on a sub-committee of Heritage Port Hope, created to work…

Rose Cottage Restoration

1 Dec 20216 Jun 2022

By Bruce Bowden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6dExaaN-os A small frame white-stucco’d cottage with eyebrow windows built at the back entrance to the Penryn King Estate for Mary Rose who immigrated from Ireland to…

The Gillett Paterson Block, 1845

7 Oct 202123 May 2022

Hiram Gillett built this three-storey block on land purchased from Robert N. Waddell in 1844. In 1876, Gillett sold the block to Stanley Paterson, Secretary and Treasurer for the Midland…

The Little Station

23 May 202123 May 2022

The Port Hope Branch owns The Little Station, one of the first railway stations in the Municipality of Port Hope, and leases and operates the Union Cemetery Chapel and Caretaker’s…

Port Hope’s Opera House – Sold

30 Nov 202019 Apr 2022

By Bruce Bowden The Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO) mandate is to encourage the conservation and reuse of structures, districts and landscapes of architectural, historic and cultural significance. In that…

RBC Donates Opera House To ACO Port Hope

30 Oct 201930 Mar 2022

RBC Helps Promote Heritage Conservation through Donation to Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO). Inaugural performance at the St. Lawrence Music Hall, later to be known as the Opera House, at…