Bill Badzo
Guelph Ontario Canada ~ Petrie Building ~ Cutten ~ Kelly Block Building~ Heritage
One of the most distinctive building in downtown Guelph is the four story Petrie Building, with its green painted wooden window panels and stamped galvanized iron facade. One of the very few remaining buildings in Canada with this type of facade, its exterior was historically designated in 1890. But the upper floors of the Petrie Building are vacant, and the green paint is there to cover long boarded up windows.
Guelph Museum’s website of a secret passageway that leads from the neighbouring Cutten Kelly Building to the Petrie Building
Cutten-Kelly Block on the corner of Wyndham and running down Macdonell and the Regent Hotel on Macdonell. The Cutten-Kelly Block is a four-storey stone building. On the corner, the ground level has a store called "Second Fiddle." There are other stores on the ground floor but they are not distinguishable. The building has a mansard roof with dormers along the top floor. The corner also has a dome extending past the roof. Beside the Block is the Regent Hotel. It is a four-storey grey stone building with a steeply-sloped roof at the front and three dormer windows on the fourth floor. There is a small balcony on the second floor above the central doorway. The ground level has store
Guelph Ontario Canada ~ Petrie Building ~ Cutten ~ Kelly Block Building~ Heritage
One of the most distinctive building in downtown Guelph is the four story Petrie Building, with its green painted wooden window panels and stamped galvanized iron facade. One of the very few remaining buildings in Canada with this type of facade, its exterior was historically designated in 1890. But the upper floors of the Petrie Building are vacant, and the green paint is there to cover long boarded up windows.
Guelph Museum’s website of a secret passageway that leads from the neighbouring Cutten Kelly Building to the Petrie Building
Cutten-Kelly Block on the corner of Wyndham and running down Macdonell and the Regent Hotel on Macdonell. The Cutten-Kelly Block is a four-storey stone building. On the corner, the ground level has a store called "Second Fiddle." There are other stores on the ground floor but they are not distinguishable. The building has a mansard roof with dormers along the top floor. The corner also has a dome extending past the roof. Beside the Block is the Regent Hotel. It is a four-storey grey stone building with a steeply-sloped roof at the front and three dormer windows on the fourth floor. There is a small balcony on the second floor above the central doorway. The ground level has store