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
Joseph Schneider Haus, one of the oldest extant buildings in the area, has been designated as a National Historic Site .
1830s
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
Woolner Farmstead
1830
Kitchener
Betzner Homestead
c. 1830
Kitchener
Schoerg Homestead
c. 1830
Kitchener
Homer Watson House
1830s
Doon (Kitchener)
1840s
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
39 Doon Valley Drive
c. 1840
Doon (Kitchener)
Shoemaker House
1840
Bridgeport (Kitchener)
Lancaster Hotel
1840
Gottlieb Bitzer
Bridgeport (Kitchener)
Bristow's Inn
1840s
Elmira
Rummelhardt School
1843
Rummelhardt (Waterloo)
Good Shantz Bosch House
1846
Waterloo
Ruby-Snyder House
1847
Waterloo
Burkholder - Burkhardt House
1849
Waterloo
Voelker House
1849
Waterloo
1850s
The John E. Brubacher House in Waterloo has been preserved as a historic house museum .
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
Brubacher House
1850 or 1851
Waterloo
Waterloo County Jail
1852
Kitchener
1221 Doon Village Road
c. 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
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
House of Industry & Refuge Poor House Hospital
c. 1860
Kitchener
Canadian Block (72-78 King Street West)
1865
Kitchener
MacLauglin House
1867
Waterloo
Market Hotel
1860s
Waterloo
1870s
Woodside House as seen in 2006 after its restoration to an 1890s Victorian style.
132 Queen St. N. in Kitchener, formerly the home of newspaper editor John Adam Rittinger .
1880s
The former Galt post office, which was completed in 1887, has been designated as a National Historic Site as an example of a small urban post office.
Building
Year Completed
Builder/architect
Location
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
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
Zimmerman House, which changed to the Waterloo Hotel
1890
Waterloo
The Walper Hotel
1893
Kitchener
1115 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
1898–99
Edward Maxwell
Galt (Cambridge)
William Street Pumping Station
1899
Waterloo
1900s
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
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
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
150 Water Street South
1910
Kitchener
Waterloo railway station
1910
Waterloo
Weber Block
c. 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)
c. 1917
Architect unknown
Waterloo
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
1918
Kitchener
1920s
The Pioneer Memorial Tower is recognized as a historic cultural site which represents the area's German pioneer heritage.
Building
Year Completed
Builder/architect
Location
Duke Street Hydro‐Electric Sub Station (296 Duke Street)
c. 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)
c. 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
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
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
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
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
Building
Year Completed
Builder
Location
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
1889
Kitchener
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