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Custom House, Hamilton (1860)
The Custom House for the United province of Canada, overlooking Port Hamilton and the Great Western Railway yards, opened in 1860. Over the decades, the Renaissance-Italian style building has been adaptively reused - perhaps more than any other heritage building in Hamilton -- as a school, residential apartments, a YWCA branch, a poorhouse, a shelter for immigrants, a textile factory, a macaroni factory, and a martial arts academy. Today it is home to the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.
Custom House, Hamilton (1860)
The Custom House for the United province of Canada, overlooking Port Hamilton and the Great Western Railway yards, opened in 1860. Over the decades, the Renaissance-Italian style building has been adaptively reused - perhaps more than any other heritage building in Hamilton -- as a school, residential apartments, a YWCA branch, a poorhouse, a shelter for immigrants, a textile factory, a macaroni factory, and a martial arts academy. Today it is home to the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.