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Architectural Conservancy of Ontario – Port Hope

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Tag: Restoration

Advocacy…

Interview: The Chair of the ACO Port Hope on The Daily Wrap

19 Nov 20229 Jan 2023
On November 16, 2022, the Chair of the ACO Port Hope Branch, Ian Mackay was interviewed by the Northumberland 89.7 FM radio show, the Daily Wrap. Ian discussed how ACO’s efforts have contributed…
Advocacy…

Ravenscourt

1 Feb 202219 Apr 2022
By Bruce Bowden Ravenscourt is an interesting and large house with modest-sized rooms, original stencilled hall panelling, two rooms with decorative plaster ceilings, and a lovely wrap-around porch.  It is…
Advocacy…

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…
Architecture…

The Marion W. Garland Award

1 Dec 202118 Nov 2022
2021 David Drover & Jennifer Glynn: For the restoration of 74 Sherbourne and 44 Pine St. N. “Pinehurst”, a significant large property in Port Hope. It has been restored beautifully,…
Advocacy…

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…
History…

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…
Advocacy…

Port Hope’s Opera House – Sold

30 Nov 20208 Nov 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…
Advocacy…

RBC Donates Opera House To ACO Port Hope

30 Oct 20198 Nov 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…

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