Downtown Heritage Conservation District - Study and Plan
Urban Heritage Character
Pine Street
General: Although its lower two blocks are now zoned for commercial use, Pine Street was originally built as a residential street, and many business operations are housed in former dwellings. Most of the survivors in the commercial zone are on the west side of the street, the east side having been to a large extent demolished to provide parking lots. The parking lots are not wholly detrimental to the heritage streetscape, since they provide views of the backs of teh Hurontario buildings, and in many case shop keepers have taken some trouble to maintain heritage character there, including provision of attractive rear entrances. There has been some municipal effort at softening the street presence of the lots by the use of landscaping and planting at the boulevards.
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Pine Street, Block 1, Between First & Second: |
West Side: The Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchise at the corner of First Street is an inauspicious beginning, but most of the buildings on the block are heritage dwellings, most converted to commercial use, and suffering somewhat in heritage value in the process, by the accretions of additions, porch enclosures, and finishes. About 80% of the frontage has heritage value.
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The parking lot is the dominant feature on the East side. |
East Side: With the demolition of Nos. 79 and 91 the streetscape consists of the flank of the Loblaw's store with its loading dock, and a parking lot, softened only by street-edge landscaping. It is to be hoped that future development will ameliorate this architecturally arid streetscape.
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Pine Street, Block 2, Between Second and Third: |
West Side: A collection of heritage and heritage-reflective house-form buildings, occuplied by businesses to the north, residences to the south, and culminating in a heritage church at the corner of Third Street. Non-heritage interruption mid-block at Nos. 120 and 130. Excellent and well-preserved heritage houses at No. 110 and northward. Commercial conversions at south end of the block are generally more sensitive than those in Block 1. About 70% of the street frontage has heritage value or is sensitive to heritage character.
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Sympathetic additions and infill near the corner of Second Street. |
East Side: The lower half of the block is more parking lot, ending at Schoolhouse Lane. Neither the facade of 2 Schoolhouse Lane nor the neighbouring 141 Pine are sympathetic with the heritage character. The rest of the block is occupied by two good heritage residences and the flank of "Thurso" a fine Romanesque revival mansion, bearing a heritage designation, and now used as a bed and breakfast.
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South end of the block: residential buildings on both sides. . |
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Pine Street, Block 3 |
West Side: a completely intact block of well-maintained heritage homes, most of them fine to outstanding. The two corner properties span the era of Collingwood's great prosperity: "The Bield", the 1912 arts-and-crafts mansion by architect Eden Smith at No. 64 Third Street, and the one-and-one-half storey Victorian at No. 258 with its unique gingerbread gables. 100% heritage value.
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Pine Street, Block 3, Between Third & Fourth: |
East Side: A well-preserved heritage streetscape interrupted by a sympathetic modern apartment building at No. 215 and a modern bungalow at 239. The siding and angel-stone at No 225 conceal an Ontario cottage that may be the oldest building on this block. Nos. 203 and 229 are notably exuberant Victorians. About 75% of the street frontage has heritage value.
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Pine Street, Block 3, Between Third & Fourth: |
Pine Street, Block 4, South of Fourth
continuation of the residential and heritage character of Block 3.
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