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. _ Colborne's 150th Wei/M4213; - 3 O . ' ' . l C nta r l 0 s pre m l er resto rati a green, but this open urban space downtown as parrof the centre is his view of main street busyness. on unusual for Upper Canada and Canada West. let alone Ontario. It behoves Colborne has also other notable architectural gems including the CO n S U lta nt a p pl a u d s the community, maybe, to restore its periodic market use, particularly as a fascinating storey-and-a-half frame house facing you at the western C I b I . . summer attraction, continuing with its occasional use for special events, entrance as the highway turns eastwards, and next to it the very wide- 0 om e S sesq tl Ken ten n ial and giving focal farmers, markets gardeners, and honiculturists a site and eaved brick Ontario Cottage of the second quarter of the nineteenth ' ' opportunity to sell their produce. century, There are many other examples of all periods throughout the E Fly appreciation for space obvious l 50 years later This also suggests the occasional use of the main street, King, as a village, making any walking tour rewarding tor the interested and By Peter John Stokes display and exhibit area for it meeting of horse-drawn historic vehicles, especially the ilciuni"it . . ' even the odd dog-drawn cart and, by extensron as a meet for antique Colborne, such a special and fascinating place, still there due to the Colbom t and vintage automobiles and other vehicles. This after all should not ' vision and inspiration of its-founder and developer. Joseph A. Keeler, at one of '2 Dwalrds the eastern end of Northumberland County, situated impede the flow of highway traffic if restricted to the north side, except 7tycy 75m lies ui t e SIRE t kinks of the Kingston Road. marks this year the slowdowns tan be expected, caused by fascinated passing viewers which 3 Ed (all ennial Of Its IfiCOftJDration on lst January 1859, but its layout cannot be avoided emirEIy. Feter5tiskesis theArrhitec1ursconsimmncyofuutsrisspityrserirs Ch eve Y""" are a little earlier, and cover more than T100 acres. The greatest secret of Colborne's layout is the peephole prospect of restoran'nn architect besrknawn forbdrigirtgirtternatityrustiiridards Ongratulations on your l 50th anniversary and your wonderlul plan. its founder's home, the handsome 1820s Keeler House at the head at a ofhirito s conservation to " m/ear Mma bout t/reprar/are. fly /s Th _ . I a p a I E SPEEHI and perhaps unique quality of Colborne is its inspired narrow street, almosia [one and named Maybee Lane, leading off the thoectisytturttterrirAraurritetimeAdswemeMAward ttismimy aytlut, the creation at the town site's second landholder, JosephA. Keeler north side of the east-west shopping street roughly mid-bhck.This house ave/m/ss/o/rss/M-est/wr/es-o theptemitsmhepiaces an (sun of the original settle Joseph Keeler), who devised a remarkable is, indeed, an architectural splendour, emulatingThe Poplars. the historic siwin9histrrricbiiiidingsigthe fmestquartty, rra/rralterhcwrhs/kyy/ny the ISEiLtuerice of urban spaces as the community's focus. This included an Barnum House of 1817,just west of Grafton. Keeler’s house exhibits a wart impresswe very wide main commercial street - King -- the developer similar flushboard arcaded front with lanlighted entrance to one side Heprepi1reiithis article asa tribute to Ctrhomersseswicermmnisi, probably encouraging the high buildings, notably on the north side placed and pedimented gable roof with matching single storey side wings here commenting, "ArBthinqsrtmmifor 150 years deservesa gtrndpany. "Written on a sidewalk plinth several steps above the "availed pavement to create graced with front veranda; Joseph Keeler obviously intended to maintain in Mr Stokes lyrialstyie, it ttdlects his rot/e trierrltitecture, hispost-graduate a more monumental apex Also created was a public space, believed E To; : Tak: -_ ' - .- .. ,_. _ _ . . _ _ ' studiesin trdaop/srvvep, imdhhgiftotbrhsirshistoryiintiaehitec1ure to to have functioned as a market square, at its western end taking in the if:§;;% F-s , f _ “ ' //grdt byshaoghispwssiars irtptrrson 0" with the written word trapezord made by the angled highway approach. g“: ff; :1:‘ 7K. 1 :3: a"triiii F, as? 'ir, . f, - , I: A 1953grariimte ofthe vniersitrgromnm fsrhoa/ofAmh/tectvnr, Keeler also provided generous Sites for churches, among them the . ‘ ".r/aut'r,fayirrlersT " ’ VV .3 5,5? IsEt'vdf,,t',!t',iittis'i:] C he wssinstrimentalh designing amisuptrrv"rsiri9 development clapper notable 1830 Presbyterian Church in stone, a frameAnglican church, _ " .v IM ' , . i. 'd " P, .. .r JL' th'csi Canada Viilegein Murrisbtirg. Omani), andrlie restoration andpresenat/on and two brick Methodist churches {Wesleyan and Episcopal). Towards Tii Ix" F.',',: '. . ", “I tr, , I & 'e ts the: " :1;le ofwetaair Hal/fr: (abort/37, along with hundreds ofoMerpm/srrts.4 weislth the eastern end facing into the wide section of the main street is En - I *- I; . if in. 3- "attic. - " " M 3 a ofiriiurmatisn, Mr.Stokes continues to deliMtsiudiences with Msintimate . . ' _ . . r. .i , -» in y, . 4.11.1 ' ' _ I I I I sited a striking small Registry Office (boilt to serve the eastern pan of - F a" "is k " "ee, f? "i'j?sirsu-V _ " " _ . ~ ".:.t,'="d'l understanding oiatchitecturisiheritays imdkiudlyagreedto (rat? Ws article ' . - C', : s, ' a q *1 ' _ - . Nmthumberlartm of the stock Provincial neo-Classrc pattern. (Perhaps the , " q EiW, El tip:,?'-. mic-Ia: - '0f35 "N t “a on Me vi1iiottscaturne-mostirimmmemoryoitmteshepreseutedtoss layout had the help of the surveyor, Greeley, brought to Colborne with i _ ‘ . . 4-,. . " . . ' ) 'ef; (‘3, " f lil t. l p/amvhgrprofessor/s ’951 e = v, _., _ “3 A; 'BMI , _- _ forty settlers by Joseph Keeler in 1793). - , a." l _. ai11 - , i ' Fekfdit _ tJ. -153 , Mr Stokes lites/n PortHrspe with is wifeAnn andrwo English owl/(swam " r a. u- "D "M _ 32-4-12. r," c The Market Square, as we like to think of it with shops facing west " f to il " r, b, _ 'ki', a: '!ifettt' - N7 " - . onto it hasevolyed more throat very weoeptpussive pad: more like MI tae _ ' IE 74,131?» _ "WE _ r" Ma Rh" i. t I , is '.' _ - tthome lhsntol Centre T ' ' j - . . S t lb -ap-. > l0 Victoria quore, o orne . ' DENTURIST DENTIST restaurant & pizzeria . I _ . N Fred Williams Br. To Vi luong » - -5-im .. _ ud; h, . [y W05l 375 grin INS 3 5 F Pratt to ave SEI'VEC t le "'tritx Colborne community . ' . ' satrlk for the past 30years _ We are happy 3. ., r" _ t _ , as, l I , ' " _ t ;'.'-'r_ _ to be purl of .. :75; ... “s l he , .e'r "'. i V i'iwu' .'.. it ,1.“ y C . ' _ vs - I if at?! _ _ j, . “I _ a'., f "a _ I. i - ., --, Colliorne s it t " trc,--,' "rm t'ai'-'i7,'.' are -' "'/ i it... “as c.-. i c/ 'r',.?-?" . _c-,i"'f', a: i" _ "aet'), , _ I, 1 F a T, " ". L', -.:.tisi'liasric,,,:i.ii:] r,;".' "amt"; " _ Q . F S ' , F , 150* Anniversary We? "r, w ii:',)'; Pi I” is _ _ x; f" T _ _ 1“ A C - _ CV ' N Ft . e -' T y'?:, _ "I 'N 48A King S trot: t. East, Collmi-nc " s . il 0 lit ff 905.355.3222 Comfort, ervrce on our y . If a I "v' a...” - E.-, _. I, _ r,M - -. V El " ' f