Information about Heritage Centre Wellington
Heritage Centre Wellington
This website shows the inventory of heritage buildings in the Township of Centre Wellington, Ontario, Canada. The site is still under construction and a few more buildings have to be added.
In Centre Wellington, a building is classified as a heritage building if it is more than seventy-five years old, and if it is a building of quality. The quality of some of the buildings shown here is obscured because an old stone or hand-made brick wall is hidden under aluminum siding or some similar finish.
Visitors from countries with an ancient heritage should appreciate that Canada is a young country with little history. Nevertheless, we like to preserve what heritage we have. In particular, this means conserving buildings constructed of stone and hand-made brick, because this is a labour-intensive method of construction that will never be seen again. Some of our heritage buildings are built of machine-made bricks, which became readily available from Toronto only after the railway reached this area in the 1870s.
The primary purpose of this website is to make public our inventory of heritage buildings so that owners of such buildings can check it for accuracy. Some heritage buildings are designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. Designation is an award, a recognition of the quality of a building, and it also carries some minimal legal obligations to conserve the building. Any owner who would like a building added to the inventory, or alterations made to the inventory, or would like a building considered for designation, should write to Heritage Centre Wellington at P.O. Box 10, MacDonald Square, Elora, Ontario, N0B 1S0.
Photographs of Rural Heritage Buildings
were taken by Carrie Sorensen.
Photographs of Salem Heritage Buildings were taken by Carrie
Sorensen and Martyn Dabner.
Photographs of Fergus Heritage Buildings were taken by Laura Schneider.
Initial web site designed by Parry Bast.
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