Winner of The Ontario Historical Societyrsquo;s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.With 300 photos and 11 maps.A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontariorsquo;s architectural heritage in its most charming towns; offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history; indulges the near universal vice of real-estate voyeurism; and beckons even the most reluctant to physical exercise.Katherine Ashenburg is our knowledgeable and charmingly opinionated companion on walking tours of ten small (populations 1000 to 27;000) Ontario communities that provide a rewarding variety of domestic and public architecture in a walkable compass. Each tour begins with a brief historical sketch of the town; then; with the aid of a detailed map; guides the reader/walker to some 60 sites over a leisurely but carefully plotted two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half hour stroll. We visit churches and jails; libraries and town halls; theatres and factories; and all manner of houses - homes of startling grandiosity and humble integrity. We become conversant with belvederes and ogee arches; Flemish bond and board and batten; at ease with Regency and Queen Anne; Italianate and Romanesque. And along the way; Ashenburg reveals the townrsquo;s true personality; its distinctive architectural styles; forms and materials; and the genius; ambition; and vanities of its founders and builders.Every town - Perth; Picton; Cobourg; St. Maryrsquo;s; Niagara-on-the-Lake; Merrickville; Port Hope; Paris; Stratford and Goderich - is a dayrsquo;s excursion from Toronto by a car or public transit; most are day-trips from either Ottawa or London. Over 300 black and white photographs capture the highlights; 11 maps show the way. For easy reference; there is a helpful; illustrated Guide to Historical Styles and an exhaustive Glossary of Architectural terms - everything from Apse to Voussoir.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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