Burlington Ontario Designated Heritage Sites

The Estaminet (2084 Old Lakeshore Rd.) Constructed prior to 1870 in the Georgian style, the Estaminet building is a three-bay frame structure with a truncated hipped roof, simple lines and minimal adornment reflective of the Georgian period in Canada (1820-1850). Photographs from the early 20th century depict a three-bay window projecting from the easterly elevation in a polygonal design. The north-facing (front) covered porch with slight bell cast roof and detailed scrollwork remains. It is likely that the bay window (no longer extant) and the porch were added to the structure in the very late 19th century/early 20th century. A single masonry chimney at the north easterly corner of the building is shown in early photographs. A chimney remains in this location today. 2084 Old Lakeshore Road contributes to our contemporary understanding of the evolution of Burlington's agrarian and port history. The Estaminet has weathered the evolution of Wellington Square's and downtown Burlin...

  The Stewart - Williamson - Peck House (2100 Old Lakeshore Rd.) Built in 1847 for 'John Stewart, farmer'. Originally a two-storey vernacular frame farmhouse, clad with board and batten. Bricked over in the late 19th century. The low-pitched end-gable roof has a plain boxed cornice and decorative bargeboard. The original windows have segmental arches and louvred shutters. The front door has a rectangular transom and side lights. The gallery addition at the west side, slightly lower than the original structure, is clad with board and batten. A one-storey addition at the east side has a multi paned bow window. Since 1987 the windows have been replaced with thermopanes with sliders and plain trim. The Treasury of Canadian Handicrafts opened in the front two rooms in 1960. The art gallery addition was built in 1961. This was the location of Robert Bateman's first one-man show in 1967. The upstairs gallery was added in 1978. The gallery closed in 1987 and has since housed medica...

  The Chrysler Carriage Shop (2101 & 2105 Old Lakeshore Rd.) A two-and-a-half storey brick structure with a high-pitched end gabled roof; the ends originally had chimneys. Replacement shutters, headboards over the windows and new awnings. The pattern of doors and windows on the front facade is greatly altered from the original; the bricking-in of the former windows is quite visible. A one-storey rear addition clad in board and batten with cedar roofing shingles. Built in 1859 (date stone) as a carriage shop owned by John Chrysler and later Mark Cummins, it has since been converted into a restaurant.

  The Sewage Pumping Station (2137 Lakeshore Rd.) A one-storey brick structure with a truncated hipped roof. The design is more restrained and severe than the Beaux Arts and Romanesque style of the Beach Pump House. Rather, the design is more inconspicuous, as is compatible with its lowlier function. However, the reliability of this Pump House is asserted by the balanced proportions and design of this structure. Regularly spaced "windows" with blind shutters under a running string course have stone sills. These are separated by unadorned brick pilasters. The wide eaves are simply finished. There may have been a decorative ridge on the roof, as on the Beach Pump House. Built in 1915 (date stone) beside Rambo Creek as the Sewage Pumping Station for the Village of Burlington, following the building of the Beach Pump House and the laying of mains and sewers in the village. 

  The Nelson Ogg - Jabez Clark House (2085 Pine St.) The first Roman Catholic services in Burlington were held in this house, since the parish was established in 1849, but the church was not built until Nelson Ogg donated the land at the north east corner of Pearl and Pine Streets. It was a mission church until 1925. It was demolished and replaced in 1952 by St John's Church on Brant Street (next to the later Ogg home) A one-and-a-half-storey end-gabled frame structure, reclad in stretcher-bond brick in the 1870s. The windows are segmental 6/6 wood sash with (replacement) louvred shutters and stone lug sills. A small gabled front dormer and a large shed-roofed rear dormer. The recessed front door has a rectangular transom. The chimney on the west side is original. Built in 1847 for Nelson Ogg, Cooper. According to Turcotte, The Growing Years, pp. 182-3, Nelson and his brother Joseph Ogg came from Quebec. Nelson first settled in Kilbride and then moved to Wellington Square. Nelson ...

  The Inglehart House - Mitchell Dairy (416 Pearl St.) A one-and-a-half storey brick structure of a very interesting shape with an angled recessed doorway within a three-sided verandah and symmetrical wings angling out on each side providing a partly enclosed front verandah The original windows are 2/2 wood sash, with radiating voussoirs and dressed stone sills. The front door is paneled and has a segmentally arched transom and sidelights. Built in 1875 for Sylvester Inglehart, carpenter. The Ingleharts were a pioneer family who moved from Pennsylvania to Nelson Township in the early 1800s. At Sylvester Inglehart's death in 1898 he left his adopted daughter three lots on Pearl Street, including this brick house, a frame house, and a vacant lot. The frame house was demolished for the development of Village Square, but this house was incorporated into the development. This was the Mitchell Dairy in the early twentieth century. There were large barns in the rear for the horse and deli...