Downtown Heritage Conservation District - Study and Plan
Urban Heritage Character
Second/Simcoe Street
General: Short blocks mean that a lot of the commercial frontage is occupied by flanks of shops on the main street. The B.I.A. extends from properties on the west side of Pine to Ste Marie Street.
Second Street, Block A, West of Pine:
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looking west from Pine Street |
North Side: Residential in character, until the flank of the funeral home, converted from a residence at the corner of Pine.
South Side: Residential-scale Collingwood Library and the flank of commercial building at the corner of Pine.
Second Street, Block B, Pine to Hurontario:
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looking west from Hurontario Street |
North Side: Corner heritage building to be demolished for parking lot, a non-heritage building at the lane, and the flank of the bus station at No 70 Hurontario, defaced by a mural.
South Side: Parking lot, lane, non-heritage "context" addition to a two-storey heritage building with unsympathetic alterations, the flank of the grand heritage building at 72 Hurontario. About 40% of this frontage has heritage value..
Simcoe Street, Block C:
Hurontario to Ste. Marie
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The north side of the block has substantial heritage value. |
North Side: The flank of the fine heritage block at 73-77 Hurontario, with a plain one-storey heritage addition behind used by shops facing Simcoe Street. A very good heritage block at Nos. 29-33, No. 29 having particularly nice brickwork, and well restored. Nos. 31 and 33 have had unsympathetic ground floor alterations. An unsympathetic modern one-storey building and its corner parking pad end the block. About 75% of this frontage has heritage value.
Simcoe Street, Block C:
Hurontario to Ste. Marie
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Looking east from Hurontario Street. |
South Side: The flank of the heritage Bank of Montreal at No. 79 Hurontario, then a parking lot, with a view of the flanks of deeper heritage buildings on Hurontario, including a nicely done heritage shed addition behind No 87 Hurontario. The rest is non-heritage. 25% of the frontage is occupied by heritage buildings.
Simcoe Street, Block D
Ste. Marie to St. Paul
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Looking east from Ste. Marie Street. |
North Side: The modern and unsympathetic newspaper building, a nice semi-detached 19th-century residential building and a vacant lot. About 23% of the frontage has heritage value.
South Side: A heritage hotel, a fine building underneath, very unsympathetic alterations to the ground floor, and suffering from modern aluminum replacement windows. 100% heritage value.
Simcoe Street, Block E, Beyond St. Paul
Simcoe Street continues into the sympathetic recent infill housing development described with St. Paul Street..
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