Posted December 31, 201410 yr Happy New Year from sunny Canada! :| Georgetown is a small historic town that has grown considerably over the years, increasingly engulfed by the never-ending sprawl of Toronto, thirty miles to the east; but still maintains an intact and fairly lively historic center-- Old Post Office--now apartments Knox Presbyterian Church nothing says "historic preservation" quite like satellite dishes-- what were they thinking with this front entrance?? http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 1, 201510 yr Never thought I'd ever see a Georgetown, ON thread anywhere. Thanks! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 1, 201510 yr Thanks! Looks like a first-cousin to Painesville! ;) "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 2, 201510 yr I guess it's sort of miraculous the downtown is as lively as it is. About 20 years ago a mall (rather small and mediocre) was built about a mile from here along the main highway (also an endless strip of fast food chains and strip shopping centers), and basically drained Main St. of many businesses and much life. Most of Georgetown and the surrounding area is like a monster suburb that keeps eating up farmland with mile after mile of subdivisions that look exactly like this, with only the slightest variations in design: here's an extreme case of suburban development gone amok (my nephew told me I had to see this house to believe it. I still don't believe it! lol) http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 7, 201510 yr a nice enough place -- those houses are very anne of green gables-esque interesting observation. "Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery lived for a few years in a tiny village called Norval just outside Georgetown (she must have walked along the same streets I did. Fortunately for her Yong's Canadian Chinese restaurant had not yet been established :-P) That architecture is found everywhere in southern Ontario. I'm not sure of its origins. Maybe due to the heavy British influence in Canada (?) http://www.georgetownon.ca/index.php/culture/museums-in-georgetown/767-l-m-montgomery-museum http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
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