Heritage Guelph Meeting – Minutes of Heritage Guelph
Held in Meeting Room C, Guelph City Hall on December 11, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.
Attendance
Members: Christopher Campbell Tony Berto Mary Tivy Michael Crawley
Daphne Wainman-Wood Brian Skerrett Charles Nixon Bob Foster
Absent: Bill Green, David Waverman
Staff: Stephen Robinson (Senior Heritage Planner) Madeleine Myhill (Planning Clerk)
External: Robert Eilers (Vesterra Property Management)
Business Items
55 Delhi Street – Confirmation of cultural heritage value and heritage attributes for recommended intention todesignate
• Robert Eilers from Vesterra Property Management spoke to the history of 55 Delhi Street
• Discussed the process of restoring the building – in poor condition upon acquiring and significant costsrelated to its rehabilitation
• Considered long-term efficiency and included features such as a rain water harvesting system
• Heritage Guelph recommended that the story of the restoration process be documented for future heritagerestoration initiatives
1. Moved by Daphne Wainman-Wood – Seconded by Tony Berto
That Heritage Guelph recommends that Council publish its intention to designate 55 Delhi Street pursuant to Section 29, Part IV the Ontario Heritage Act; and
That the original portion of the building at 55 Delhi Street has cultural heritage value or interest in that it has:
– design or physical value as a representative example of a major institutional building designed with archi-tectural elements of early 20th century Edwardian Classicism. The building displays a high degree of crafts-manship and architectural design and demonstrates the work of two architects that are significant in southern Ontario and the local community (Stewart McPhee and William Mahoney respectively).
– direct historical or associative value in its contribution to the development of the Guelph General Hospital as an important institution in the city.
– contextual value as it is important in defining, maintaining or supporting the historical character of the DelhiStreet streetscape and is functionally and historically linked to its surroundings as an important extant ele-ment of the historic Guelph General Hospital campus; and
That the following are to be considered as heritage attributes to be protected by a heritage designation by-law for 55 Delhi Street:
– all four elevations of the original Georgian Revival building form (2.5- storey plus basement) constructed with pressed red brick with blue headers in a Flemish bond pattern in un-tinted mortar and rock-faced limestonebasement exterior walls
– main side gable roof with return eaves, two projecting pedimented frontispieces, three pedimented frontdormers, four pedimented rear dormers and pedimented rear wall dormer beside brick chimney stack
– all original exterior wood trim including modillions under eaves and verges
– all original window and exterior door locations, openings and tooled stone lug window sills
– projecting front entrance porch, balcony and paired Tuscan columns
– rusticated quoins formed by recessed brick courses at corners and plinth
– front entrance door and door case with sidelights, fanlight and basket arch in red brick with projecting den- ticulated head band
– 2-storey oriole windows in both side gable walls
– original wooden railing elements of the centre stairway from basement to third floor including the handrail,balustrade, turned balusters and newel posts with fountain motif