The Triton Hotel on Main Street West. The Triton Hotel, at 60 Main Street West, opened as the Ritz Men’s Club Hotel in 1927, catering to an exclusive list of doctors, lawyers and bankers. In 1948, William Stuart of Toronto bought the hotel with its 34 guest bedrooms. His was the first Hamilton Hotel to introduce honky-tonk piano. It closed in 1968, and soon after the city took possession of the hotel.
1952
Palmerston Terrace on the south side of Jackson St. West, west of Park Street was torn down in the late 1950s to make way for the new City Hall.