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Brady Hardware Building
Fourth Street
1916


History

Original Owner Name: William Albert Brady

- became Brady & Son
- hardware – north side – Post office – south side
1956 – William Campion Marshall Wells Store
Sold to Verne McConnell – closed in 1978
- now known as the Klussen Block


Features



G.S. Monroe Co. Building
Fourth Street
1902


History

Original Owner Name: G.S. Munroe

1927 – United Store
1953 – Solo
1977 Glendon Solo Store
1988 Reston Fine Foods

Original Builder/Architect: William Albert Pierce – Stone Mason


Features

Fieldstone
Granite sections cut from one rock found 5 km south in the Kinloss District



Chapman Drug Store Building
Fourth Street
1907


History

Original Owner Name:  Dr. Chapman

Burt Brown
Lloyd Fumerton
Harry Neil
Lyall McMorran
Moorow Pharmacy
Grant & Nancy Schiltroth


Features

- first telephone switchboard
- once housed a Dentist later Liquor Store
- ice cream parlour


Berry Block
Fourth Street
1906


History

Brick faced in 1914

Original Owner Name:  Edward Hanlon Berry

- Jewellery & Watch Repair - south half of main floor

- Retail with Residence - south half of main floor
- nine bedrooms on second floor



Features



Former Ellis Motors
Fourth Street
1948


History
 
Wilfred Nolan (Nolan’s garage)
- purchased by Wilfred Ellis in 1957


Features


Modern Cafe Building
Fourth Street
1910

History

Deering Equipment agency
1946 became “Modern Lunch Bar”

Features

- moved to site ca. 1927



Guthrie & Bulloch Insurance Building
Fourth Street
ca. 1915


History

  Sears - 1978

Features







Bank of British North America
Fourth Street
1918


History

B.N.A. merged with Bank of Montreal 1918

Replaced earlier building destroyed in a large fire 1916

Living quarters on second floor.


C.P.R. Shed?



History


Elevator
 


History

Formerly Agricore

Features




Townsley Garage Building
ca. 1915


History

J.B. Townsley

- Sherman Dayton ca. 1935
- sold to Wilfred Nolan
- business moved to new 4th St location by 1948

Features




Reston Recorder Building
Fourth Street


History


Features





Wm. Busby Farm Site
SE 20-7-27
GPS Reading: 14U  0347652  5494035
ca. 1910

History

Construction Date: Wm. Busby Farm est. 1888

Original Owner Name:

1885 – E.R. Edwards
1889 – 1910 Wm. H. Busby
1914-1932 W. Busby

Original Builder/Architect: Jim Stallwood


Features

- bricks taken off
- nice grounds etc.



John Clegg Farm Site
SW 22-7-27
ca. 1910

History

John Clegg homesteaded in 1883 on this site and lived here for 40 years.

Building Features of Interest:

- Location by Pipestone Creek – this would have been an advantageous spot in pioneer times


Features




James Bulloch Farm
SW 16-7-27
1904

History

James I. Bulloch

Features

- clipped gables
- renovated
- barn – in good shape
- basement with original features




C.P.R. Engine House
GPS Reading: 14U 0482066      5470529
1906

History

Roundhouse – Railway Engine Maintenance


Features

- roundhouse form – wedge-shaped front
-large access doors
- some interior elements and machinery
- Municipal Designation #M0142