The Regional Municipality of Waterloo , Ontario, Canada has a mixed style of buildings originally located in small towns and farming communities starting from the 19th century. After 1900, commercial and industrial buildings also appeared.
Joseph Schneider Haus, one of the oldest extant buildings in the area, has been designated as a National Historic Site . Building Year Completed Builder Location Woolner Farmstead 1830[ 1] Kitchener Betzner Homestead c. 1830[ 2] Kitchener Schoerg Homestead c. 1830[ 3] Kitchener Homer Watson House 1830s Doon (Kitchener)
Building Year Completed Builder Location 39 Doon Valley Drive c. 1840[ 4] Doon (Kitchener) Shoemaker House 1840[ 5] Bridgeport (Kitchener) Lancaster Hotel 1840[ 6] Gottlieb Bitzer[ 7] Bridgeport (Kitchener) Bristow's Inn[ 8] 1840s Elmira Rummelhardt School 1843 Rummelhardt (Waterloo) Good Shantz Bosch House 1846 Waterloo Ruby-Snyder House 1847 Waterloo Burkholder - Burkhardt House 1849 Waterloo Voelker House 1849 Waterloo
The John E. Brubacher House in Waterloo has been preserved as a historic house museum . Building Year Completed Builder Location House of Industry & Refuge Poor House Hospital c. 1860[ 11] Kitchener Canadian Block (72-78 King Street West) 1865[ 16] Kitchener MacLauglin House 1867 Waterloo Market Hotel 1860s Waterloo
Woodside House as seen in 2006 after its restoration to an 1890s Victorian style. 132 Queen St. N. in Kitchener, formerly the home of newspaper editor John Adam Rittinger .[ 17] The former Galt post office, which was completed in 1887, has been designated as a National Historic Site as an example of a small urban post office. Building Year Completed Builder/architect Location Hillard House 1880 Waterloo Kuntz Eckert House 1880 Waterloo Seagram-Remax Admin Building 1881 Waterloo Central Block 1881 William Snider and Aaron Kraft Uptown Waterloo Bean-Wright House 1882 Waterloo Bank of Hamilton–CIBC Building (part of former Germania Block) 1885[ 21] Jakob Fellman Kitchener King Edward Public School 1885 Kitchener Button Factory 1886 Waterloo D. Hibner Furniture Co. Ltd 1887 Daniel Hibner, Mayor Kitchener Former Galt Post Office 1887[ 22] Thomas Fuller [ 22] Galt (Cambridge) Electrohome building (152 Shanley St) 1887[ 23] Kitchener
Building Year Completed Builder Location Zimmerman House, which changed to the Waterloo Hotel 1890 Waterloo The Walper Hotel 1893 Kitchener 1115 Doon Village Road 1894[ 24] David Cole Doon (Kitchener) Simpson Block 1895[ 25] Kitchener Kitchener railway station 1897 Kitchener 152 Shanley Street 1898[ 26] Kitchener Schiel Patterson House 1898 Waterloo Galt Canadian Pacific Railway Station 1898–99[ 27] Edward Maxwell[ 27] Galt (Cambridge) William Street Pumping Station 1899[ 28] Waterloo
Building Year Completed Builder Location Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway Car Barn & Power House (25 Madison Avenue North) 1902[ 11] Kitchener Haas–Pemberton House 1903[ 29] Waterloo Snyder Seagram House 1903 Waterloo St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church 1903 A. W. Holmes of Toronto - architect, Caspar Braun - masonry, William Forwell - carpentry Kitchener Waterloo Carnegie Library 1903–1905 Waterloo Kaufman Shoe Factory 1908 Kitchener
Building Year Completed Builder Location 150 Water Street South 1910[ 30] Kitchener Waterloo railway station 1910 Waterloo Weber Block c. 1910[ 31] I. S. K. Weber Kitchener Victoria Public School 1911[ 32] Kitchener Berlin Isolation Hospital (69 Highland Road East) 1911–12[ 11] Charles Edward Cowan (architect)[ 11] Kitchener Berlin Isolation Hospital Smallpox Pavilion (77 Highland Road East) 1911–12[ 11] Charles Edward Cowan (architect)[ 11] Kitchener Greenbrook Pumping Station Reservoirs 1 and 2 1912 Kitchener Mutual Life Insurance Company of Canada 1912 Frank Darling Waterloo Post Office 1911–1913[ 11] D. Eward (Chief Architect for Canada), L. B. Lachance of Ottawa (contractor)[ 11] Waterloo Berlin Isolation Hospital Caretaker's Residence (79 Highland Road East) 1913[ 11] Unknown architect[ 11] Kitchener 19 Regina Street North 1913[ 33] Waterloo Rumpel Felt Company 1913[ 34] Kitchener Molson's Bank 1914 Langley and Howard Waterloo Doon Heritage Village 1914 Doon (Kitchener) Waterloo Isolation Hospital (172 Lincoln Road) c. 1917[ 11] Architect unknown[ 11] Waterloo Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church 1918 Kitchener
The Pioneer Memorial Tower is recognized as a historic cultural site which represents the area's German pioneer heritage. Building Year Completed Builder/architect Location Duke Street Hydro‐Electric Sub Station (296 Duke Street) c. 1920[ 11] Kitchener Grand River Hospital Nurses' Residence 1921[ 11] Kitchener Galt Public Utilities Commission Building 1922[ 35] F. C. Bodley[ 35] Galt (Cambridge) Strange Street Pumping Station 1922–23[ 11] Kitchener Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower 1923 Kitchener Bahnsen-Bierstick-Marsland House 1923 Waterloo old City Hall's clock tower 1924 Kitchener St. Mary's Hospital 1924[ 11] Kitchener Reitzel-Grierson House 1925 Waterloo Schmaltz Apartments (96 Young Street) c. 1925[ 36] Kitchener Freeport Bridge 1926[ 37] Freeport (Kitchener) Freeport Sanatorium Nurses' Residence 1926–27[ 11] Arthur C. Torry (architect)[ 11] Freeport (Kitchener) Kaufman Shoe Factory 1927 Kitchener Greenbrook Pumping Station Pump House, K1 and K2 Well Houses 1929 Kitchener
Building Year Completed Builder Location Freeport Sanatorium Main Treatment Building 1929–30[ 11] B. A. Jones (architect) and Dunker Company (contractors)[ 11] Kitchener Elizabeth Ziegler Public School 1930 Waterloo Woodside Municipal Pool 1931[ 11] Kitchener Kitchener Public Utilities Commission Building 1931–32[ 38] Kitchener Freeport Sanatorium Pump House, Power House and Shed 1932[ 11] Kitchener Hydro Electric Power Commission (HEPC) Building (325 Breithaupt Street) 1933[ 11] Bernal Ambrose Jones (architect), Dunker Construction (contractor)[ 11] Kitchener Rockway Golf Course Clubhouse 1935[ 11] Stanley Thompson (architect)[ 11] Kitchener Freeport Sanatorium Men's Residence 1935–36[ 11] Kitchener Greenbrook Pumping Station Reservoir 3 1936 Dunker Construction Company[ 11] Kitchener Federal Building (Duke St) 1938[ 39] C. D. Sutherland (architect)[ 11] Kitchener Freeport Sanatorium Medical Superintendent's Residence 1938–39[ 11] B. A. Jones (architect) and Dunker Company (contractors)[ 11] Kitchener Waterloo County Registry Office (Registry Theatre) 1939[ 40] Ray Hall (architect), Dunker Construction (contractor)[ 11] Kitchener
Building Year Completed Builder Location Kitchener Trolley Bus Transit Terminal (Rockway Centre) 1950[ 11] Kitchener Kitchener Memorial Auditorium 1950–52[ 11] Jenkins & Wright (architects)[ 11] Kitchener Grand River Hospital main building 1952[ 11] Kitchener Eastwood Collegiate Institute 1956 Kitchener Government of Canada Building 1956–57[ 41] Jenkins and Wright (architectural firm)[ 11] Kitchener
Building Year Completed Builder Location St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church 1889 Kitchener
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