A thanks goes out to regular reader Aaron for the suggestion to cover this old Hydro Substation on Hanna St. in his old neighbourhood.
I thought I had some information on this one somewhere, but I couldn’t find it anywhere…
It was decommissioned around the time the one on Walker Road just north of Richmond was. Maybe around 2002 – 2003… I seem to recall that this one was a few years younger, and was maybe built around 1918 or so… I know that this property along with the one on Walker were put up for sale by EnWin as surplus properties, but I’m not sure if this one ever sold.
It really is a great looking building, and it’s a shame that it’s in the sorry condition that it’s in today.
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Actually.... if you divided it down the centre and used the main middle door as the entrance you could put to pretty cool aprtm,ents in there..... not sure what the basement is like but I am sure its good for storage.... the big green service door on the West side of the building could be turne dinto a window or even an opening to an added on deck or balcony or something....
but I am sure the environmental issues in that building have quite the sorting out to do before it cvan be used for much....
man I can hear the hum of the transformers in the back of the building now.....almost 20 years of growing up across from that place and playing catch in the front yard of it I am sure did my body good LOL!
PS sorry about my AWFUL typing and spelling...wow.......I rule....
sweet another one! thanks for posting this andrew! i suppose sammy covered the memories lol andrew, would it probly be safe to say that our old house directly across the street was buit around the same time as the year of this building, around 1918?
thanks again for covering the ol hood!
on eof the stories I remember hearing about our house was that when they were diggin out the basement fropm just a crawl space to a actually basement they discovered some prohobition ers bottle of booze in a few crates under there....I thought that was cool...but have no proof of the story........
and growing up in the 80's we were told the house was already pushing 80 yrs old then....so that may be right...but I am no expert and it is hard to tell under all the yellow siding on the house what is really under there...
R: You can find out quite a bit by visiting the building dept. and looking up permits. I was able to find the build date for my cousin's century-old catalog house on Windermere, and a few dates for my own house, ie. when certain additions were made like the bathroom dormer. As to the area, I'm guessing most those houses were built in the 1910s onward.
John...thanks for the info! I appreciate it.....