03-22-2023, 03:52 PM
(03-21-2023, 07:02 PM)ac3r Wrote:(03-21-2023, 04:00 PM)SF22 Wrote: I would be DELIGHTED if someone designed townhouses that looked like the Arrow/Courtland ones! I am so partial to a classic design, especially in the downtown area, but there's just something about that beautiful brickwork that's lost to us today. If you walk around any of the neighbourhoods built before 1920, there is gorgeous detailing done with the brick layouts that gives each house/building its own bit of character. I wish we still had that eye for detail in modern builds.
The ones at Courtland and Benton? Those are amongst my most cherished buildings in all of Waterloo Region. They were tenements for employees of the former shirt factory (or at least some industrial company nearby) and there were once an additional 1 or 2 of them, though they were demolished when Benton was widened.
They were indeed row houses for the female workers at the Arrow shirt factory. The one closest to Benton was demolished to allow for the planned widening of Benton, but apparently that one was a very different design (I have never seen a photo of it though).