Ye Old(er) Hammer

[flar]

HAMILTON NEIGHBOURHOODS:
Corktown • Durand • Central • Dundas • Locke St. South • Burlington • Stinson • Westdale • St. Clair • Keith • Landsdale
The Delta • Gibson • Jamesville • Concession Street • Durand North • Durand South • Old Dundas Houses • Hess Village • Barton Street
Ancaster • North Kirkendall • South Kirkendall • McMaster University • Downtown • The Bayfront • The North End • Kenilworth
Mountain Brow • Textile District • Strathcona • North Stipley • Flamborough • Beasley • Chedoke • Stoney Creek • The Beach Strip

HAMILTON FEATURES:
C I T Y _ L I G H T S • Stone Hamilton • Twilight of the Industrial Age • Twilight of the Industrial Age II
Stone in Dundas and Ancaster • Goodbye, Hamilton (from 43 floors up) • Dirty Brick • Day for Night
This broken down old city still manages to wake up every morning... • Everywhere, Ontario • < R - E - T - R - O >
HAMILTON | Scenes from the cutting room floor • S U B U R B I A ! • Everywhere, Ontario • Hamilton Rowhouses
< H E A V Y <> I N D U S T R Y > • Old Man Winter vs. Hamilton






Central
Hamilton, Ontario

Central is one Hamilton's oldest neighbourhoods. Quite a bit of older housing stock and some industrial areas remain in the
northern part of the neighbourhood, but the southern portion is almost entirely gone, a victim of urban renewal projects. Parts
of Downtown Hamilton, as well as Hess Village, fall within the "official" boundaries of Central. As with the Beasley tour, I am
only showing the "neighbourhood" parts here.

[boden]

The juxtaposition in that last one is too much!

[Top Of The Park]

very pleasing looking place

[philadelphiathrives]

Interesting how many rowhomes there are in Hamilton. You usually don't find many attached rowhomes that far west.

Also, what are those windows with the big pane of glass on top and two little ones at the bottom called? They seem to be so common in Canada.

[Jibba]

I am consistently amazed by the amount of variety of housing in Hamilton; so many high-quality buildings of so many different styles. You capture it very well (and extensively).

[dugdogmaster]

Awesome

[Bergenser]

Hamilton looks really good in snow.

[jdcamb]

this house is right around the corner from my cousins old apartment/new window shop. At night you can see inside It's a cool house for sure...

[flar]

Originally Posted by philadelphiathrives

Interesting how many rowhomes there are in Hamilton. You usually don't find many attached rowhomes that far west.

Also, what are those windows with the big pane of glass on top and two little ones at the bottom called? They seem to be so common in Canada.

Toronto has quite a few rowhouses too. A difference I've noticed is that most of Hamilton's attached houses have big dividing walls, often with double chimneys, protruding from the roof between them while this is much less common in Toronto. Perhaps due to differences in fire codes?

example of walls:




Good observation on the windows, there are a lot of them. No name that I know of for this window configuration. I doubt they are original since the top pane of glass is very large by the standards of the mid 19th century.

[Kingofthehill]

Sheer brilliance!

Any trips lined up for next year?

[xzmattzx]

Nice pictures. Some of those scenes don't look anything like Canada at all. They really look Pennsylvanian. The first picture after your neighborhood description looks like you might find it in Lancaster County.

[philadelphiathrives]

Thanks flar for the info. And thanks for this great thread taken on a cold day. After I saw it the other day, I decided to take a walk through Philadelphia's northern downtown neighborhoods because your thread put me in the mood. They have similar townhouses, except less European looking and few peaked rooves.

I think the windows I described have a distinctly European look, and are less common in the US.

[flar]

^^I'd love to be able to do tours like this in Philadelphia.

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

Sheer brilliance!

Any trips lined up for next year?

Nothing specific yet, though I'll probably continue with a few more of these housing studies in Hamilton and Toronto and do some tours of a few more surrounding towns and cities. I don't travel much in the winter.

[denveraztec]

Burr-itiful! No shortage of red brick here. I could gaze at these old structures all day and never tire! Thank you for sharing yet another wonderful tour!

[olga]

Great tour, thanks!

[flar]

I was looking at some history books, the small one storey cottages and frame houses are likely remnants of Hamilton's earliest housing. Hamilton isn't really that old, it was first settled in the 1810s and didn't become a city until 1846. After that, Hamilton's population exploded to become one of Canada's leading cities by the 1870's. Many of the houses seen in this tour are houses built in the later 19th century to replace older, often poorly built, wooden houses. (Incidentally, Hamilton's suburbs of Ancaster, Dundas and Stoney Creek are all older than Hamilton itself, having been settled in the 1790s)

Most of Hamilton's earliest settlers were United Empire Loyalists who were granted land by the British after the American Revolution. The settlers came mostly from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which explains why some of the houses resemble the houses in those areas.

[Hozay]

Cool hood!

[SuburbanNation]

nothing like a little Canadian porn.

[KevinFromTexas]

Great pics. I like the architecture there. The old brick facades are true art.

[Boris]

beautiful.

Always gotta check out your threads