History
this is an old community centre in halton hills, built in 1860. alongside being a community centre, this building also served as home to the Hornby Cooperative Nursery School, which served the community for almost 40 years. it shut down in 2014 due to declining enrollment, but had a wonderful run, with former communications officer Andrea Murdoch saying that some of the school's teachers used to be students there.
some links to info i could find about this community centre: https://www.theifp.ca/news/after-40-years-hornby-co-op-nursery-school-to-close-its-doors/article_9707c4ec-a9eb-5e4b-a8fc-a843b8b42dd9.html
About this location
no open entry points as far as i could see, but you can easily peek into the stained glass windows to see an empty building with a couple chairs. this is genuinely such a beautiful building and has remained fairly clean throughout the last 8 years.
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A Holy Start
my first spot of my bike ride to guelph (140km pr set). I did a quick look around and noticed that there was a broken window and it was a pretty hard squeeze but i got it. the basement was aight, i re...
Hornby Community Centre
this is an old community centre in halton hills, built in 1860. alongside being a community centre, this building also served as home to the Hornby Cooperative Nursery School, which served the communi...
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this explains so much! when i drove by this years ago on the way to my piano lessons, i always thought it was a church because of the stained glass windows, the window shapes, and the spire. when i did more research i was surprised to see that it wasn't a church (for some reason i didn't come across that article). thank you so much for this info, satisfied that question in my head :)
1 year ago
formerly the Hornby United Church. following info is copy-pasted from a haltonhills.ca historical evaluation pdf: "Originally the Hornby Methodist Church, then the Hornby United Church. On the 1858 Tremaine’s Map this property is owned by Peter M. Rowe, no church is present on the property. On the 1878 Historical Atlas map the property is owned by Samuel King., the church is present by this time. On the 1928 Lloyds Map of Halton the church is still present. On the c. 1955 Tweedsmuir map the church is present. The intact church is visible in the 1954 aerial photography. In the 1973 NTS topographic mapping the church is still present. The Hornby United Church spire was built and installed by Gordon Brigden at the machine shop in Hornby. After the congregations of Hornby and Ashgrove built Hillcrest United the old church was used as a community centre and then a nursery school."