By Brian Goodman While walking around the neighbourhood, I came across this plaque outside of 69 East Ave. S. I always loved the stained glass transom windows of this house. The plaque reads: “The Robinson House 1879″ This house was built by Isaac McQuesten of Whitehern, and has been named after William Robinson, the original owner,…
By Nicole St. Louis Stinson Street School is not the only example of Romanesque architecture in our neighbourhood. There was another. Built in 1897 by architects William and Walter Stewart, Hamilton’s Central Collegiate Institute was a beautiful example of Romanesque design. Tragically, fire ravaged the school in 1946. The first high school in Hamil-ton burned…
<strong>By Bill Callaway</strong> <strong>My father, William John Callaway, bought this house sometime prior to WW1. According to the 1911 Census for Hamilton he was then living on Wilson St. but his enlistment papers for the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force in May 1916 showed his address as </strong><strong>140 Stinson St.. The picture on the left is what…
The substantial stone residence at 90 Stinson Street was built in 1862 for Frederick W. Fearman and was later enlarged in 1875 and 1890. Today, with its prominent three-storey entrance tower marking the head of East Avenue South, this commanding Victorian mansion stands out as an important neighbourhood landmark and as one of the city’s…