Lost Opportunities

[Jacquie]

I was walking on Roy Street the other day, and noticed how close the back of the old Zion United Church's Sunday School Room is to the yard of the house on 41 Roy Street. A friend and I were researching the history, whether the house or the church extension came first. I suspect the house came first, based on my rudimentary knowledge of architectural periods. Anyway, as my friend and I endeavoured to research this question, she stumbled across this thesis in architecture on the internet, devoted to the old abandoned church buildings DTK. I thought it suitable to upload here because as of now, we know that at least one of the churches  (Trinity United previously located at Duke and Frederick) studied has been demolished in favour of a high rise condo building. It's a lost opportunity because it could've gone to much more creative use of the space, while preserving the heritage of the downtown, instead of doing away with it forever. (I also cross posted in the "Doors Closed Waterloo" thread. Here is the link: https://curve.carleton.ca/system/files/e...wntown.pdf