TIMMINS - The city's municipal heritage registry has doubled.
Tuesday, Timmins council added the city hall building at 220 Algonquin Blvd. to the register. It's the second building in the city to be added to the list.
In July, the city backed the bid to designate the decades-old building as a property with cultural heritage value or interest. After that, it was up for public comments for 30 days. No feedback was received, said director of growth and infrastructure Scott Tam.
The bylaw approved this week officially declared it a heritage property.
An art deco building, city hall opened in 1938 and was designed by Sudbury architect P.J. O'Gorman. New Liskeard-based contractor Hill-Clark-Francis built it for $113,000.
Materials and labour were sourced locally as much as possible.
The heritage attributes listed in the application are the face-brick detailing on the face of the building, the symmetrical arrangements and proportion of the window openings, the original stonework at the roofline and around the building's entrance, the central entrance and staircase, the terrazzo flooring to the second floor and on the central staircase, and the plaques mounted to the outside of the building.
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In 2021, the City of Timmins designated its first heritage property — the Mackechnie house at 438 Wilson Ave.
The log home on the north side of the street next to the Ford dealership has only had two owners. It was built in 1925 by Harry W. Darling and sold to Dr. Graeme Mackechnie in 1947.
In 2022, six municipally owned properties — including city hall — were added to the municipal heritage register list as non-designated properties.
The properties are the McIntyre Headframe, the McIntyre Community Building, the dome-shaped ore bin at the Hollinger property on Water Tower Road, city hall, the City of Timmins Engineering Building (that's also the old post office), the Timmins Transit terminal that was the old railway station, and the H.R. Bielek building that houses the Timmins Senior Recreation Centre.
A non-designated property doesn't have the same protections as a designated property.
