List of oldest buildings and structures in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo

The Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has a mixed style of buildings originally located in small towns and farming communities starting from the 19th century. After 1900, commercial and industrial buildings also appeared.

1810s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Erb-Kumpf House 1812 Waterloo Joseph Schneider Haus 1816 Kitchener

1830s BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Woolner Farmstead 1830 Kitchener Betzner Homestead 1830 Kitchener Schoerg Homestead 1830 Kitchener Homer Watson House 1830s Doon (Kitchener)

1840s BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation 39 Doon Valley Drive c. 1840 Doon (Kitchener) Shoemaker House 1840 Bridgeport (Kitchener)Lancaster Hotel1840Gottlieb BitzerBridgeport (Kitchener) Bristow's Inn 1840s Elmira Rummelhardt School 1843 Rummelhardt (Waterloo)Trinity Anglican Church, Cambridge 1844 Good Shantz Bosch House 1846 Waterloo Ruby-Snyder House 1847 WaterlooBurkholder - Burkhardt House 1849 Waterloo Voelker House 1849 Waterloo

1850s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Brubacher House 1850 or 1851 Waterloo Waterloo County Jail 1852 Kitchener 1221 Doon Village Road 1853 Doon (Kitchener) 138 Church Street 1855 Kitchener 142 Church Street 1855–60 Kitchener Huether Hotel 1855 Waterloo Kitchener–Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School (KCI) 1855 Kitchener Elam Martin Farmstead 1856 Waterloo Snyder–Hahn Building 1857 Jacob Bricker Waterloo Galt Town Hall 1858 H. B. Sinclair Galt (Cambridge) St. Clement's Roman Catholic Church 1858 St. Clements Nixon House 1859 Waterloo Richber House 1859 Waterloo

1860s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation House of Industry & Refuge Poor House Hospital 1860 Kitchener Canadian Block (72-78 King Street West) 1865 Kitchener MacLauglin House 1867 Waterloo Market Hotel 1860s Waterloo

1870s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Woodside National Historic Site 1870s Kitchener Elam Martin Farmstead 1870 Waterloo Sonneck House 1874 Louis Breithaupt Kitchener 132 Queen Street North 1877 Kitchener Castle Kilbride 1877 Baden (Wilmot Township) Waterloo County Governor's House 1878 David W. Gingrick (architect) Kitchener 307 Queen Street South 1879 Kitchener

1880s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilder/architectLocation Hillard House 1880 Waterloo Kuntz Eckert House 1880 Waterloo Seagram-Remax Admin Building 1881 Waterloo Central Block 1881 William Snider and Aaron Kraft Uptown Waterloo Bean-Wright House 1882 Waterloo Bank of Hamilton–CIBC Building (part of former Germania Block) 1885 Jakob Fellman Kitchener King Edward Public School 1885 Kitchener Button Factory 1886 Waterloo D. Hibner Furniture Co. Ltd 1887 Daniel Hibner, Mayor Kitchener Former Galt Post Office 1887 Thomas Fuller Galt (Cambridge) Electrohome building (152 Shanley St) 1887 Kitchener

1890s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Zimmerman House, which changed to the Waterloo Hotel 1890 Waterloo The Walper Hotel 1893 Kitchener1115 Doon Village Road 1894 David Cole Doon (Kitchener) Simpson Block 1895 Kitchener Kitchener railway station 1897 Kitchener 152 Shanley Street 1898 Kitchener Schiel Patterson House 1898 Waterloo Galt Canadian Pacific Railway Station 189899 Edward Maxwell Galt (Cambridge) William Street Pumping Station 1899 Waterloo

1900s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway Car Barn & Power House (25 Madison Avenue North) 1902 Kitchener Haas–Pemberton House 1903 Waterloo Snyder Seagram House 1903 Waterloo St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church 1903 A. W. Holmes of Toronto - architect, Caspar Braun - masonry, William Forwell - carpentry Kitchener Waterloo Carnegie Library 1903–1905 Waterloo Kaufman Shoe Factory 1908 Kitchener

1910s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation 150 Water Street South 1910 Kitchener Waterloo railway station 1910 Waterloo Weber Block 1910 I. S. K. Weber Kitchener Victoria Public School 1911 Kitchener Berlin Isolation Hospital (69 Highland Road East) 1911–12 Charles Edward Cowan (architect) Kitchener Berlin Isolation Hospital Smallpox Pavilion (77 Highland Road East) 1911–12 Charles Edward Cowan (architect) Kitchener Greenbrook Pumping Station Reservoirs 1 and 2 1912 Kitchener Mutual Life Insurance Company of Canada 1912 Frank Darling Waterloo Post Office 1911–1913 D. Eward (Chief Architect for Canada), L. B. Lachance of Ottawa (contractor) Waterloo Berlin Isolation Hospital Caretaker's Residence (79 Highland Road East) 1913 Unknown architect Kitchener 19 Regina Street North 1913 Waterloo Rumpel Felt Company 1913 Kitchener Molson's Bank 1914 Langley and Howard Waterloo Doon Heritage Village 1914 Doon (Kitchener) Waterloo Isolation Hospital (172 Lincoln Road) 1917 Architect unknown Waterloo Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church 1918 Kitchener

1920s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilder/architectLocation Duke Street Hydro‐Electric Sub Station (296 Duke Street) 1920 Kitchener Grand River Hospital Nurses' Residence 1921 Kitchener Galt Public Utilities Commission Building 1922 F. C. Bodley Galt (Cambridge) Strange Street Pumping Station 1922–23 Kitchener Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower 1923 Kitchener Bahnsen-Bierstick-Marsland House 1923 Waterloo old City Hall's clock tower 1924 Kitchener St. Mary's Hospital 1924 Kitchener Reitzel-Grierson House 1925 Waterloo Schmaltz Apartments (96 Young Street) 1925 Kitchener Freeport Bridge 1926 Freeport (Kitchener) Freeport Sanatorium Nurses' Residence 1926–27 Arthur C. Torry (architect) Freeport (Kitchener) Kaufman Shoe Factory 1927 Kitchener Greenbrook Pumping Station Pump House, K1 and K2 Well Houses 1929 Kitchener

1930s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Freeport Sanatorium Main Treatment Building 1929–30 B. A. Jones (architect) and Dunker Company (contractors) Kitchener Elizabeth Ziegler Public School 1930 Waterloo Woodside Municipal Pool 1931 Kitchener Kitchener Public Utilities Commission Building 1931–32 Kitchener Freeport Sanatorium Pump House, Power House and Shed 1932 Kitchener Hydro Electric Power Commission (HEPC) Building (325 Breithaupt Street) 1933 Bernal Ambrose Jones (architect), Dunker Construction (contractor) Kitchener Rockway Golf Course Clubhouse 1935 Stanley Thompson (architect) Kitchener Freeport Sanatorium Men's Residence 1935–36 Kitchener Greenbrook Pumping Station Reservoir 3 1936 Dunker Construction Company Kitchener Federal Building (Duke St) 1938 C. D. Sutherland (architect) Kitchener Freeport Sanatorium Medical Superintendent's Residence 1938–39 B. A. Jones (architect) and Dunker Company (contractors) Kitchener Waterloo County Registry Office (Registry Theatre) 1939 Ray Hall (architect), Dunker Construction (contractor) Kitchener

1950s

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation Kitchener Trolley Bus Transit Terminal (Rockway Centre) 1950 Kitchener Kitchener Memorial Auditorium 1950–52 Jenkins & Wright (architects) Kitchener Grand River Hospital main building 1952 Kitchener Eastwood Collegiate Institute 1956 Kitchener Government of Canada Building 1956–57 Jenkins and Wright (architectural firm) Kitchener

Dates unknown

BuildingYear CompletedBuilderLocation St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church 1889 Kitchener

See also

List of historic places in Regional Municipality of Waterloo List of oldest buildings in Canada Architecture of Canada

References