HomeMy WebLinkAbout13 057 719-723 Queen Street Heritage Designation By-law THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF KINCARDINE
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NO. 2013 - 057
BEING A BY -LAW TO DESIGNATE THE PUBLIC BUILDING AT
719 -723 QUEEN STREET, MUNICIPALITY OF KINCARDINE
THE KINCARDINE POST OFFICE AND CUSTOMS HOUSE
AS BEING OF HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL VALUE
• WHEREAS Section 29 (1) of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. 0.18, as
amended, authorizes the Council of a municipality to enact by -laws to designate a
property within the municipality to be of cultural heritage value or interest;
AND WHEREAS the Council of the Municipality of Kincardine has caused to be served
upon The Ontario Heritage Foundation, notice of intention to so designate the aforesaid
property and has caused such notice of intention to so designate the aforesaid real
property to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the Municipality;
AND WHEREAS the reasons for designation are set out in Schedule "B" attached
hereto;
AND WHEREAS by By -law No. 4143, "Being a By -law to Designate The Former Post
Office Property at 719 -723 Queen Street of Being Architectural Value" designated this
property of being of historic and /or architectural value or interest;
AND WHEREAS the information contained in By -law No. 4143 is incomplete;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of The Corporation of the Municipality of Kincardine
• ENACTS as follows:
1. There is designated as being of architectural value and interest the real property
more particularly described in Schedule "A" hereto, known as The Kincardine
Post Office and Customs House, 719 -723 Queen Street, Municipality of
Kincardine, Ontario.
2. The Clerk is hereby authorized to cause a copy of this by -law to be registered
against the property described in Schedule "A" hereto in the proper land registry
office.
3. The Clerk is hereby authorized to cause a copy of the by -law to be served upon
the owner of the aforesaid property and upon The Ontario Heritage Foundation
and to cause notice of this by -law to be published in a newspaper having general
circulation in the Municipality of Kincardine.
4. That By -Law No. 4143 be repealed in its entirety.
• 5. This by -law shall come into full force and effect upon its final passing.
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719 -723 Queen Street Heritage Designation By -Iaw
By -Iaw No. 2013 -057
• 6. This by -Iaw may be cited as the "719 -723 Queen Street Heritage Designation By-
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READ a FIRST and SECOND time this 15 day of May, 2013.
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READ a THIRD time and FINALLY PASSED this 15 day of May, 2013.
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SCHEDULE "A"
By -law No. 2013 - 057
• The property is described as 719 -723 Queen Street, Geographic Town of Kincardine,
Town Plot Pt. Lot 1, SP1 Plan 61, Municipality of Kincardine, County of Bruce
(Roll # 41 08 220 002 01100, PIN 3309 -0272, Plan 3 R 1947), 719 -723 Queen Street,
Geographic Town of Kincardine
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Schedule "B"
By -law No. 2013 -057
• Designation Statement:
Designation for 719 -723 Queen Street, Kincardine, Historically Known as Kincardine
Post Office and Customs House, (also known as "The Annex ") shall include all named
features listed below.
Description of Property and Heritage Features:
Designation shall cover all exterior facades and roof of the structure, including all
original brickwork, and stonework.
Repair or restoration work performed on the designated areas, which is completed with
same material and does not change the look of the restored structure, may be
performed without prior approval from Heritage Kincardine unless a building permit is
required.
Statement of Cultural Heritage and Architectural Value:
• Construction of this red brick building was begun in 1907 by Mr. William Nicholson of
Wingham, Ontario, who submitted a Public Tender in the amount of $17,700 on
November 11, 1907. Historically the building is known as the Kincardine Post Office and
Customs House. The top two floors were the home of the first postmaster of
Kincardine, George D. Morrison. M. J. MacPherson conducted the customs office
located here. Rural mail delivery was established in 1913. Stage delivery, the old
stand -by for many years, came to an end in 1914. In 1977, the stately old structure was
deemed inadequate for the town's expanding population. Since closing as a Post
Office, the building has been the offices for a variety of local businesses and services.
The Kincardine Post Office and Customs House (also referred to as the "Annex ") is
typical of the Renaissance Revival Style of Architecture found in Ontario between 1870
and 1910. In Ontario, the Renaissance saw a revival in commercial buildings, banks,
offices and churches. The building features the balance and harmony found in
Renaissance Revival buildings in Toronto, Hamilton and other Canadian cities. As
such, all proportions of the building are balanced and refined. The design is
symmetrical with an unadorned facade. The facade is broken by the three storey center
section which is topped by an open and more ornate triangular pediment and flanked on
• the first storey by the two large and detailed pediments framing the porticos of the side
doors. The main body of the building has an oversized double rowed cornice, featuring
large dentils. Rusticated stone work makes an appearance throughout the facade,
including the straight pediments over all windows, the arched pediment over the second
storey centre window and the band of stonework which encircles the building. (See
Appendix "A ")
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Appendix "A"
• Renaissance Revival Style of Architecture (1870 — 1910) first made an appearance in
the Palazzos of the
15 and 16 centuries, in Florence and then in Rome and other centers (the Pith
Palace, 1458, the Medici - Riccardi Palace, 1444 -59 and the Strozzi Palace, c1489). A
palazzo was a three or four storey building with a rusticated ground floor (Le. a type of
decorative masonry achieved by cutting back the edges of stones to a plane surface
while leaving the central portion of the face either rough or projecting markedly).
Rustication provides a rich and bold surface for exterior masonry walls. The use of
rustication was introduced into England by Inigo Jones and became a dominant feature
in much English stonework during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Renaissance also saw the development of a graceful and balanced adaptation of
the Greek styles. During the 16 and 17 centuries Renaissance Architecture was
translated in both French and English equivalents and can also be found in Germany,
the Czech Republic and Holland.
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