Note: during winter, the Mill Dam may not be kept snow free
32) Sloan Building - 229 Tenth Street East - D
Irish-born John Sloan constructed this building between 1867 and 1869, as a melodeon factory and sales outlet. He lived upstairs with his family until his death in about 1892. Raised brick quoins terminate in corbels and dentils under the front roof. Parapet walls, an old-world style rare in this region, rise above the roof line and end in tall chimneys.
33) Damnation Corners - corner of Tenth Street & Third Avenue East.
Known as “Damnation Corners,” where four hotels once stood.
To follow the Old Courthouse Route, go to #47
34) Salvation Corners - corner of Tenth Street & Fourth Avenue East
This intersection has been dubbed “Salvation Corners” because of the four remarkable limestone churches that anchor this spot.
35) First Baptist Church - 990 Fourth Avenue East
Owen Sound’s first Baptist congregation was established in 1853, with early services held in various locations. Their first services at this site were held in 1879. This stone church was built in 1903. The semi-elliptical windows are characteristic of the Italianate in style. Square-plan corner towers give vertical emphasis, terminating in octagonal caps.
36) Church of the Nazarene - 386 Tenth Street East
One of the earliest congregations in Owen Sound, the Church of Christ Disciples was formed in 1842. They built this church in 1889. The style is that of an early English country church, with steeply pitched roofline and sloping buttresses. Unusual gables are cut into the roof at the sides of the building. In 1957 the Church of the Nazarene bought the building.
37) St. George’s Anglican Church - 1049 Fourth Avenue East
The Anglican congregation was established in Owen Sound in 1849. This building was built in 1881, patterned after St. Mary’s Church in Bristol, England. Gothic design elements include a graceful tower and spire, exterior glazing bars in the windows and the quatrefoil (similar to a four-leaf clover).
38) Division Street United Church - 997 Fourth Avenue East
This congregation was formed in 1856, with the first church on this site (Division Street Presbyterian), a frame building, erected in 1857. The current church was built in 1886. The congregation joined the United Church of Canada in 1925. Elements of the Gothic Revival style include a square tower, stepped buttresses and expert stonework.
39) Row Housing – 938 to 1000 Fifth Avenue East
All built in the late 1800s, this collection of three row housing groups consist of a mixture of styles, including Gothic Revival and Italianate, with a variety of architectural elements, such as gables, round headed windows, gingerbread trim and bay windows. Generally built as rental units, most of these are now individually owned.
40) Butchart Estate – 919 Fifth Avenue East
The Queen Anne Revival home was built in 1880 by Robert Pim Butchart, who pioneered the cement industry in Canada in 1888. In 1904, he moved his business to Vancouver Island where his wife, Jennie, created Butchart Gardens, now a famous tourist attraction in the abandoned quarries around their home. The tower is of particular interest because of the curved glass windows.
41) Rixon House – 894 Fifth Avenue East
This Georgian style home, built in the late 1850s, was used for church services until 1874, then as a private school, a grammar school and a boarding house. Sold to the Rixons in 1888, it stayed in the family until 1973. Elements of this style include the front façade, twice as long as the sides, with a centred door, flanked by windows on both sides.
42) 452 Ninth Street East
This restrained Queen Anne Revival style, built circa 1900, has strong verticals, the bay window on the south side, the steeply sloped roof, tall chimneys and off-set front gable. Highly decorative, the 'eye-let' type design on the bargeboard and the equilaterally arched, slatted windows below the gable tend to break the stiff, angular feeling.
43) 895 Fourth Avenue East
Built in the early 1870s, this home was used as a manse for Knox Presbyterian Church for five years after the turn of the century. It was then owned by a photographer and a doctor. Today it is used as apartments. Originally, Georgian in style, with simple design elements, two additions added the large tower, bay windows, and hipped roof.
44) Knox United Church – 890 Fourth Avenue East
Built in 1873 and enlarged in 1886, this church was originally Presbyterian, forming in 1846, but with Congregationalist Union, it became a United Church in 1925. In 1919 the Memorial Casavant Organ was installed and dedicated in remembrance of the men [22] who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914-1918. The organ console is being refurbished and will be rededicated on June 20, 2007.
45) 881 Third Avenue East
There was likely another building on this site for a number of years before this structure was built circa 1910. A drug store once occupied the corner suite. Architecturally, this building is Ontario Vernacular with some Neo-Classic details such as the pediment with cornice returns on the corner and the entablature and frieze trim.
46) Old Post Office – 291 Ninth Street East - D
Built in the Beaux-Arts style as a Post Office in 1910, the building was sold in 1958 and now contains commercial uses and apartments. The main floor is constructed of rock-faced limestone, the second floor of ashlar (smooth faced stone), and the third is lit by alternating pediment and curved-roof dormers. Granite pillars crowned by Ionic Capitols flank the corners of the building giving the appearance of supporting the mansard roof.
