Custom House
Tags:
Central,
Doors Open Hamilton 2010,
Doors Open Hamilton 2013
Address: 51 Stuart Street
Date Built: 1858 - 1860
The Custom House for the United province of Canada, overlooking Port Hamilton and the Great Western Railway yards, opened in 1860. Over the decades, the Renaissance-Italian style building has been adaptively reused - perhaps more than any other heritage building in Hamilton -- as a school, residential apartments, a YWCA branch, a poorhouse, a shelter for immigrants, a textile factory, a macaroni factory, and a martial arts academy. Today it is home to the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.
Written by: Bill Manson
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