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The Dundas Town Hall

Plaque

Location
The City of Hamilton
In Dundas, on the NW corner of Governor's Road and Main Street


Photographer
Alan L Brown

More Information
Posted
April 22, 2004

Text from the Plaque
Dundas was incorporated as a town in 1847 by a special Act of the legislature of the Province of Canada. The following year the town council accepted a tender from a local builder, James Scott, to erect a stone town hall and voted £2000 to cover the cost. Designed in a version of Roman Classic, by Francis Hawkins of Dundas, the building was completed by July, 1849, and was said to have cost £2500. Except for a small Italianate wing added later, the exterior has been little altered, although a thorough renovation was carried out in 1946. It is one of the most handsome, pre-1850, municipal buildings surviving in Ontario.

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