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Originally Posted by ChildishGavino
I think I've found the building that left that print (hope I posted the link right)
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Nope thats the building beside the kresges building before they tore it down and extended the kresges building all the way to arliss shoes - the building that left that imprint was covered up by that building and dates back to the 1800s. You can see how its slope partially covered up one of the original chimneys in the imprint.
Also even that building beside the kresges building was not the original building, as the original building sloped down towards the front as evidenced by the original imprint like all the other rowhouses on that block, predating the building imprint as before the rowhouse - or sticking out of the rowhouse side - and thus the early 1800s.
Lots of historical stratum there for sure.
Interestingly enough I chanced upon a roof view of the original kresges and it shows that both those chimneys used to emerge from the roof of it intact, like the kresges building had simply swallowed that original building whole and all that was left were the chimneys sticking out..
What I find fascinating too is that white building above beside the arliss building appears to be a leftover remnant of the ORIGINAL building - like they knocked down 3/4s of it and left the original 1/4 standing.. you can see that "quarter" in the image below even has the roof "bannister" with the almost crenelation on each side of it still intact.
That 3/4s ofthe buildingwas later demolished, kresges was built, then the remaining 1/4 was demolished and kresges was extended further out. If you look at the back of the demolished building as they were demolishing it you can actually see a difference in colour between there 2 sections in the metal beams. You can still see that ancient 'peaked roof" imprint above the kresges roof and one of the "chimneys" appears to have been repurposed.. but still appears to go all the way down and end in a "fireplace" opening at the bottom.
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this link:
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the northeast corner of King and Hughson Streets was home to a row of seven narrow stores with stone facades. Many such stores were built in downtown Hamilton in the 1840s and 1850s, using stone from local quarries. They were typically simple in design and utilized a combination of dressed stone, rubble, and sometimes brick. They often included residential quarters “above the shop.” With time, most of them were either demolished or incorporated into larger buildings. Only a few survive in something close to their original form.
The occupants of the block where Kresge’s later appeared included the YMCA, before its elegant stone-trimmed building was opened on James Street South in 1889, along with a saloon, a manufacturer of cabinet and undertaker’s hardware, a dentist named Figliano, the Maccabees Hall, a private bank, and a public bathhouse.
In 1930, the corner site was developed as the Kresge store. In 1949, it enlarged was refurbished in a style favoured by the Kresge chain – buff brick with art-deco ornaments. Porcelain-enamel panels depicted the fountain on the Gore. Unfortunately, the colour scheme of apricot and lemon soiled quickly when exposed to Hamilton air, and the artistic panels were eventually painted over. The building aged badly and periodic suggestions that it be declared a heritage site were never adopted.
To the east, other members of the old stone row were incorporated into another block, which rose two stories higher than the Kresge store. Its best-known occupants were the Adams Department Store and later, Arliss Shoes.
Fully revealed, the party wall which separated Kresge’s and the Adams Building shows us the way that buildings were enlarged and combined over many generations. Small stone and brick buildings were later extended and joined together. Stories were added and a sloping roof disappeared under a flat roof. Most puzzling is the remnant of a stone building, clearly visible in the lower north part of the exposed wall. Probably the oldest segment of the wall, it appears to have been a home, with a low gable roof and two chimneys. Its position is particularly curious; although we cannot be sure, it appears to have faced north toward the alley which once joined Hughson and John Streets. Why someone might have built a stone house facing on an alley in the 1840s or 1850s remains a mystery.
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