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53 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Business (Note : This is two properties) VG
Description Late 19th C. (ca. 1898) 21/2 storey house form frame commercial building, with Edwardian Classic influences, brick clad, with gable end to the street, offset entrance under a full width porch, with two windows on each storey, one paired window in the gable end with wood siding Late 20th C. (1980) 1 storey concrete block commercial building with attached signage, an offset entrance and single display window Details: decorative spindlework on porch fascia and support brackets on house-form building, also projecting 2 storey bay with gabled roof (north side) Current uses: commercial (retail; restaurant)Evaluation Typical converted house on the main street; modern commercial structureHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant (house-form building) Contextual value (part of streetscape grouping of house-form buildings with No. 51; close important vista east along Campbell St.); restaurant has modest scale but otherwise incompatible
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53 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Business VG
Description Late 19th C. (ca. 1898) 21/2 storey house form frame commercial building, with Edwardian Classic influences, brick clad, with gable end to the street, offset entrance under a full width porch, with two windows on each storey, one paired window in the gable end with wood siding Late 20th C. (1980) 1 storey concrete block commercial building with attached signage, an offset entrance and single display window Details: decorative spindlework on porch fascia and support brackets on house-form building, also projecting 2 storey bay with gabled roof (north side) Current uses: commercial (retail; restaurant)Evaluation Typical converted house on the main street; modern commercial structureHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant (house-form building) Contextual value (part of streetscape grouping of house-form buildings with No. 51; close important vista east along Campbell St.); restaurant has modest scale but otherwise incompatible Significant heritage value (VG); no heritage value for restaurant
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55 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Dudley’s Tack Shop VGc. 1860
Description Mid-19th C. (ca. 1860) 2 storey brick and frame gable-roofed commercial building, gable end to the street, with a central entrance flanked by large display windows and two windows above; brick first storey with frame second storey addition Details: ribbed brick pilasters, dentilled cornice over first storey Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation Former single storey building, compatible with adjacent commercialHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant Contextual value (establishes commercial setback) Significant heritage value (VG)
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56 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Royal Canadian Legion VG1872
Description Mid-19th C. (1872) 21/2 storey frame (?) gable roofed commercial building, with Gothic Revival influences, brick cladding, a central gable and gables in the flanking sides of the roof, a central entranceway with single windows on each storey and a central paired window above the entrance (blocked0 and a single window in the gable end; memorial side garden, rear patio Details: decorative brick drip mouldings over windows, decorative brick band courses, foundation and pilasters at corners Current use: institutional (Legion)Evaluation One of the landmark buildings in the downtownHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant Contextual value (landmark on important street corner, part of pair of landmark buildings with No. 58) Significant heritage value (VG)
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57 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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OId Methodist Church VG1855
Description Mid-19th C. (ca. 1847) 21/2 storey frame gable roofed commercial building with Classical Revival references, gable end to the street, with two entrances on the first storey and two display windows, and three windows son the second storey, with horizontal siding Details: applied decorative bargeboarding in the gable end, applied shutters on second storey windows, canvas awnings on first storey windows Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation Originally a Methodist chapel, moved to the current site in the early 1890s, with some unsympathetic alterations but well maintainedHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant Contextual value (maintains setback) Significant heritage value (VG)
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58 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Balfour Store, Holiday Store E1880-81
Description Late 19th C. (1881) 3 storey Dutch gabled brick commercial building with Gothic Revival influences, gable end to the street, with 2 entrances on the first storey (the commercial entrance flanked by large display windows), 3 windows on each storey above, with dormered windows in the mansard above flanking walls, 2 storey brick rear addition Details: decorative brick drip mouldings on second storey windows, decorative brick sills, and decorative brick medallions over first storey signboard Current use: commercial (retail) with residential apartments aboveEvaluation Landmark building (height, location and design) near a prominent intersectionHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant Contextual value (part of pair of landmark buildings with No. 56) Great heritage value (E)
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60 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Home Hardware No Heritage Value
Description Late 20th C. (ca. 1996) single storey steel frame flat-roofed commercial building, with central entrance and flanking windows, overhanging full width cornice/signboard, centred on a large lot with surface parking Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation Contemporary commercial building typical of strip mallsHeritage Significance Contextual value (maintains deep setback of former mansion on the site) No heritage value
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61 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Commercial (Note: This is two properties) G
Description Early 20th C. (ca. 1918) 1 storey frame gable roofed commercial building, gable end to the street, with an offset entrance and single display window, on a narrow lot; to the north, a late 19th C. 11/2 storey house-form frame commercial building with Neo-Classical influences, with a central entranceway and flanking windows, with two windows in the gable end on each storey Current uses: commercial (retail)Evaluation Two modest commercial buildings, the house with unsympathetic alterations (door and surround, cornice, windows) but well-maintainedHeritage Significance Contextual value (compatible with modest commercial buildings along that side of street) Some heritage value (G)
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61 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
Commercial G
Description Early 20th C. (ca. 1918) 1 storey frame gable roofed commercial building, gable end to the street, with an offset entrance and single display window, on a narrow lot; to the north, a late 19th C. 11/2 storey house-form frame commercial building with Neo-Classical influences, with a central entranceway and flanking windows, with two windows in the gable end on each storey Current uses: commercial (retail)Evaluation Two modest commercial buildings, the house with unsympathetic alterations (door and surround, cornice, windows) but well-maintainedHeritage Significance Contextual value (compatible with modest commercial buildings along that side of street) Some heritage value (G)
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63 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Vacant Lot No Heritage Value
Description Vacant lot (former site of house-form commercial buildings)
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65 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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IDA Pharmacy No Heritage Value
Description Mid-20th C. (ca. 1962) 1 storey flat roofed steel frame (?) commercial building, with an offset door flanked by large display windows Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation Commercial building Heritage Significance Contextual value (compatible height and setback) No heritage value
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66 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Business No Heritage Value
Description Late 19th/early 20th C.1 storey house form frame gable roofed commercial building, on a narrow lot, with central entranceway and single flanking window, with large single storey rear addition, flanked by surface parking lots Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation Nondescript commercial Heritage Significance Contextual value (re-establishes setback) Assosciated value (former telephone exchange) No heritage value
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67 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Mac’s Milk Convenience Store No Heritage Value
Description Late 20th C. 1 storey concrete block gable roofed commercial building, with a central entranceway and shallow gable over, double door flanked by triple display windows Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation Commercial buildingHeritage Significance Contextual value (maintains setback) No heritage value
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68 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Business G-VGc. 1910
Description Early 20th C. (ca. 1910) 21/2 storey gable roofed frame house form commercial building, gable end to the street, with an offset entrance and large display window on the first storey and two windows on the second storey, and a single window in the gable end, stucco cladding, flanked by surface parking lots Details: decorative shingling in the gable end Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation House-form commercial building Heritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant Contextual value (maintains setback) Significant heritage value (G-VG)
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71 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Nichols House VG1848
Description A mid-late 19th C. (1848/1896) 21/2-2storey frame gable roofed commercial building with offset doors, 2 doors and 3 windows on the first storey of the main block, with 4 windows above, and 1 door and window on the first storey of the northern addition, with 2 windows above, board and batten siding, full width porch Details: chimneys at gable ends Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation One of oldest commercial buildings in the downtown, well maintainedHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant Contextual value (maintains setback) Significant heritage value (VG)
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72 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Business GDescription Mid-20th C. 1 storey gable roofed frame commercial building with a single storey addition on the north side, two bays wide, with two blind dormers in the main roof and two doors in each bay, set back from the street surrounded by surface parking, with service pumps at the front Current use: commercial (service garage)Evaluation Commercial building typical of many small towns, but one of the earliest surviving automobile garages in the areaHeritage Significance Some heritage value (G)
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75 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Residence/Commercial VG1870
Description Mid-late 19th C. (ca. 1870) 2 storey gable roofed frame house form commercial building, gable end to the street, with entrance on the south face, central gable over, second entrance on south side of gable end, with single window on first storey and tow in the second storey, large 1 storey wing to south, with garage in gable end, on large lot with mature landscape planting, set back from the street and backing onto the creek Current use: private residence/commercial (office)Evaluation Landmark building closing vistas at end of Way St. and Pearl St., with sympathetic additionHeritage Significance Town heritage designation: Significant Contextual value (landmark, residential property on Commercial Street) Significant heritage value (VG)
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76 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Business (Triplex) No Heritage Value
Description Mid-20th C. 2 storey gable roofed frame commercial building, 3 bay stepped false front with gabled roof behind, gable end to the street, with small 1 storey additions to the south and west, 3 separate commercial entrances and display windows in each bay, with double windows above, brick veneer cladding on first storey, stucco on second, windows and entrance doors on flanking sides, filling the lot except for parking in front Current use: commercial (retail)Evaluation Commercial/residential building that continues the tradition of residential and commercial uses on the main streetHeritage Significance No heritage value
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79 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Buisness G
Description Mid-late 20th C.(ca. 1950s) 21/2 storey frame, gable roofed, brick clad commercial building added to a mid-19th C. 2 storey frame gable roofed, gable end to the street main block on the north side; brick building with a central entrance flanked by triple windows, pilasters flanking entrance, decorative moulding above door, three triple windows in the second storey, secondary entrance on south gable end under an arched canopy; frame building has an offset entrance under a very shallow full width porch, with a glazed door flanked by a single horizontal window on the first storey and two single windows in the second storey gable end, built to street line with large lot behind Details: wooden support posts on shallow porch, Neo-Classical decorative door surround on brick block Current use: commercial (funeral home)Evaluation Compatible new building with Neo-Classical influences, reinforcing an important cornerHeritage Significance Contextual value (compatible with older structures, anchors important corner by creek) Some heritage value (G) for frame block.; none for the brick addition
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85 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Residence G-VG
Description Mid-late 20th C. 2 storey gable roofed frame residential building, with central entranceway covered by a porch, flanked by 2 windows on the first floor with two windows above and a single window in the gable end, with a detached garage on the north side, 1 storey wings to the south and east, and an outbuilding to the east, set well back from the street on the far slope of the creek, close to the rear property lines of houses on Bagot St. , on large lot and mature landscape plantings that screen it from view Current use: private residenceEvaluation Appears to mimic earlier mansion on same site, set back, facing Baldwin St.Heritage Significance Contextual value (compatible with other houses along street although screened and set back, one of the few surviving early mansions) Some significant heritage value (G-VG)
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91 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Vacant Lot No Hertitage Value
Description Vacant lot, severed from front of house lot at 95 Baldwin
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95 BALDWIN STREET
Brooklin, Ontario
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Private Residence G-VG
Description Appears to be late 19th/early 20th C. 2 storey gable roofed frame residential building, main block gable roofed, gable end to street, with hip gabled wing to the north, on a large lot, set well back from the street on a slope close to the rear lot lines of houses on Bagot St., heavily screened by mature landscape planting Current use: private residenceEvaluation Similar to No. 85 in its detachment from the street, much alteredHeritage Significance Contextual value (compatible with No. 85) Some significant heritage value (G-VG)