Took me a moment to recognize that as the Medical Arts building. I didn't know it had awnings at one time.

From facebook - Vintage Hamilton

Some Royal Connaught pics from the Spec's Flashback series.

Observation: funny but I never realized how ornate the top two floors of the older east wing actually are until I saw these black and white photos.

Lobby 1940:
http://thespec-stories.com/wp-conten...s-1024x798.jpg

1920s:
http://thespec-stories.com/wp-conten...s-760x1024.jpg

1930s:
http://thespec-stories.com/wp-conten...s-968x1024.jpg

1955:
http://thespec-stories.com/wp-conten...5-1024x821.jpg

1964:
http://thespec-stories.com/wp-conten...4-845x1024.jpg

I love the old Sanford building at John and King. I really prefer the look of the Connaught before the late-20s addition.

Birks' building/ clock, Pigott, former Spec building - that's hot.

For those not following facebook vintage Hamilton, guess the intersection from which this photo was taken,

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...90&oe=5569D0E7

I follow VH, but I saw the image here first...

Is that old city hall? Which would make this King William and... MacNab? Somewhere in the middle of Jackson Square, now.

Yes



Yes.



No. Close. I believe King William did not go west of James ;)

Again, any guesses (same rules apply)

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...42&oe=5562AD83

The original downtown courthouse from the John St. side (St. Paul's steeple in the background)

That other building in the right middle ground is still there too - LIUNA has offices in it. It's quite nice.

What a gorgeous building that was. I really like the courthouse now, though. I do however wish the lot at John and Main would be filled, as with the lot next to the Liuna building at Hughson and Main.

^MacNab and Market, I believe. Roughly where the pharmacy and the cinema now reside in Jackson Square. Great shot.

Technically, that would be the third courthouse, if I'm not mistaken.

The first was, quite literally, a log structure of one sort or another and the second was a more substantial stone edifice built in the 1820s. The building above dates from the late 1870s.

No pictures or citations, so you'll just have to trust me. ;)

:yeahthat

http://www.hamiltonlaw.on.ca/images/...e.gif?sfvrsn=2

Is this on the same site?

The first log courthouse was built after the County of Wentworth was formed in 1816 and was located on the southeast corner of John St. and Tyburn St. (now Jackson) across from where the next three Wentworth courthouses would be built.
Tyburn was a reference to the infamous place for execution for London England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyburn

http://i62.tinypic.com/htgown.jpg
Source: Hamilton Public Library Local History and Archives, blackmount collection, 32022189081694.jpg

The library sketch doesn't match the description in "A Mountain and a City" by Marjorie Freeman Campbell which describes it as facing west, set back from John to allow space for pillory and stocks, the log first storey was built with logs, measured 30x30 feet, and housed the jail. The frame courtroom on the second storey was reached by a wide flight of steps.

This is the second courthouse (the library has its opening date as 1828) and it was on the west side of John St. on the same site where the next two courthouses would be built.

The third courthouse was built in 1877 lasted until the fourth one which is still standing was built in 1957.

Interesting history. So that block of land had been home to a courthouse since well before Hamilton was incorporated as a city, up until the courts moved to the former post office in 1999. And it will soon host a courthouse again.

If that land could talk...