Day 2

All our Sunday stops are downtown and within easy walking distance of each other.

Inside the restored 1930's Art Moderne TH&B Railway Station is a small museum celebrating the now swallowed up Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo Railway. The picture shows a 1950's switching station that has been preserved. Go Transit, a system of buses and trains now operates from this location.

We arrived at Whitehern just before their opening time of noon having heard that it was extremely busy yesterday. This house and it's gardens were left to the city by the family and it retains it's original furnishings right down to the clock in the kitchen. The main floor has been returned to the 1850's while the upstairs bedrooms are 1930's.

Time out for brunch.

St Paul's Presbyterian Church has the tall spire and the bells were ringing out at various times today. Wonderful. It was built in the mid 1850's and has changed little since then. It is lovely inside, very English Gothic inside and out with magnificent stonework, woodwork and stained glass windows.
In the foreground is James Street Baptist Church. Inside is a surprise. It is very plain and has had modern elements added that to me fight with the exterior that is classified as high Victorian Gothic Revival.

We decided it was time to head home having stopped at the Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts ( no photo ) and taking a short cut back to the car discovered another church open, MacNab Street Presbyterian. While taking a photo of the fence at Whitehern I managed to get the clock tower into the picture. Again a lovely stone church build in the 1850's. The interior was restored in 1934 and again is plainer than St. Paul's. The 8 large stained glass windows are a real treat having been added between 1935 and 1971 and are considered the finest example of Scottish stained glass in Canada.
We managed to see 11 out of 59 sites in the two days.