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The Colborne Art Gallery is
housed in the historic Registry Office. The
following description of the Registry Office is
provided by the Local Architectural Conservation
Advisory Committee (LACAC), which was instrumental
in protecting this building. |
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The land
for the Registry Office was originally purchased
from Joseph Keeler by John M. Grover in the year
1859. (This was also the year of the Village
incorporation). Mr. Grover also contributed the
cash to build the structure and was to become East
Northumberland's first Registrar. The Office is
built of Flemish Bond red brick and is Neo Classic
in style with round headed windows and label
surrounds with prominent keystones which repeat in
the door designs. The interior opens onto a barrel
vaulted room, which again repeats the themes of the
exterior doors and windows. There are heavy metal
shutters which close over the inside of the windows
for protection from external fires or thefts, as
well as heavy bars affixed to the outside of all
the windows. This is Colborne LACAC's second
designated site (1996), which, having been closed
in 1991 by the Province of Ontario, was retained
back into the Municipality's assets and saved from
being sold on the open market, which may have been
the end of its local
history." |
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The Registry Office is among the sites on a self-guided walking tour of Colborne. See also a feature article on LACAC member Ian Anderson. |
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