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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Nicholas Spark's house (1829-1954). He bought most of what is now downtown Ottawa in 1823 (roughly Wellington, Slater, Bronson and Nicholas). Some land was sold to Government for the Rideau Canal and other projects, while other lots/buildings were donated, such as a former market building for Ottawa's (or ByTown)
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Interesting building. I like simple Georgian architecture like that.
I don't use the words "Toronto" and "historic preservation" in the same sentence without usually adding something negative but, for some miraculous reason, Toronto has managed to save a lot of its Georgian-era architecture in an unadulterated form.
Too many buildings to post pics of, but
this wiki list is pretty good. Keep in mind that by 1834 Toronto only had 9,000 people, and only 30,000 by 1850.
I'm not sure about some places in the States along the Ohio river, but Toronto's collection of Georgian, pre-railway era architecture is probably the best for a North American city this far inland. Cities that would have been much bigger and more important like St. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh do not have similar collections of early 19th century buildings.
By the time you get to architecture circa 1850-1950, of course, major American cities and places like Montreal have more impressive buildings and more of them.