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Set on a high stone basement, the arcaded effect of this ground floor opening is preserved with the elegant centre entrance to its seven-bay pilastered front. The notable treatment of this centrepiece with round-headed fanlighted transom to a handsome pair of doors and bracketed canopy is complimented by a Venetian or Wyatt window above. This civic building, designed in the neo-classic inspiration of the early Victorian period, has, with its capped pilasters of the front, a feeling from the Greek revival, the canopy to the entrance a touch of Italianate. Brickwork and stone dressings belong to the original building, as do the hipped roof form with ornamental cornice to the eaves and survivors of the end chimney stacks. The central cupola, octagonal in form, is set on a high stepped base of such plan; the widely louvred faces alternately punctured with four-paned, heavily mullioned transomed windows and adorned with Roman numerated clock faces to the cardinal points. Louvred panels are separated by small slender Roman Doric colonettes with plan shafts having a slightly exaggerated entasis. These columns support a bold cornice with denticulated frieze carrying a metal-tiled roof, octagonal in plan, but extended in an ogre shape to an upper cornice surmounted by a cast iron balustrade and central flag staff.

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Post Office Block: White brick commercial block with Nos. 5 -17 stores below and storage space above in six units. This later building was very much in the mid-Victorian mode, but still carried the local details of ornamental brickwork, including labels over segmental window heads, a band course serving as a shop front cornice and heavily modelled parapet fronting the low-pitched shed roof. The shop fronts themselves had been seriously mutilated by 1970 and only two of the original windows were complete, with parts of two others, and the entrance to the upper floors also surviving. Alterations to shop fronts to install modem aluminium in dark bronze finish had improved the front generally, but the fixed awnings and curious signboards were added, but less sympathetic adornments. The building was, regrettably, sandblasted, despite the fact that it had weathered like most "white" brick to a pleasant mottled buff colour.

Old Fire Hall: it is a brick public building with residential space No. 19-23 and public assembly room above, three storeys in a single unit, owned by the Town of Port Hope. This building, although a later front to Walton Street, was of considerable importance to the continuity of the streetscape. Its detail except for the ground storey arches built for the fire engines and arched entry to the upper floors, was rather plain with labels to segmental window heads rendered in a smooth stucco, band or sill courses and brackets to a wooden cornice at the eaves. The building had a gable roof parallel to the street with end parapets and chimneys. Later the eastern engine opening was widened and a folding door inserted for more modern equipment. Original sash survived in the third floor and at the stair hall, or west side of the second floor. Other windows on the second floor had been mutilated in renovations, possibly to accommodate lowered ceilings in the apartment conversion. The hose-drying tower was apparently added about 1879 and was characteristic of such facilities, with battered walls and mansard top.

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This is a four-storey brick commercial building with commercial and/or storage space above, in a single unit. It was originally part of the corner block, but unlike it, this building has kept its original brick finish and fourth storey. The brick is of a stretcher bond design and the building is topped with a low-pitched shed roof. It has four bays to the main facade on the second and third storeys. The stone-based twinned pilasters and narrow recesses to windows are crowned by an ornamental brick cornice with projecting dentils. The windows are transom over sash and although designed as casement windows, they function as double hung. On the fourth floor however, there is no transom as the storey is more attic-like, being shorter with its roof sloping down to the rear. All windows are headed by a plain lintel and supported by a lugsill. The cast iron columns on street level, salvaged from the Sculthorpe Block, project decorative light fixtures and separate the three display windows and the door area. Originally, there were two front entrances from the street, one where the doorway is now and the other in the mid-window section.

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Trinity College School is a co-educational, independent boarding/day school located in Port Hope. The Senior School, Grades 9-12, includes approximately 450 students. The Junior School includes nearly 100 day students from Grade 5 to Grade 8. The school was established in 1865, and it is one of Canada's oldest and most respected educational institutions.

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The first Anglican services in Port Hope were led by the Rev. Joseph Tompson in 1819. At a Vestry meeting held in February, 1865, it was decided to build a new church and a lot was purchased on the corner of Pine and South Streets for $1,800.00. The firm of Gundry and Longley of Toronto were appointed architects to design a church building in the then-popular gothic revival style. Construction began seventeen days after Confederation and was completed in 1869 at a total cost of $18,300.00. Most of the stained glass windows were made in England and are typical Victorian stained glass memorials to various families and individuals prominent in the founding and construction of St. John's.

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