Exterior Upgrade Planned For
Downtown Federal Building
Collingwood's downtown federal building will be getting a facelift. Public Works Canada has announced that work will take place to repair the exterior masonry on the historic building. At the moment, steel beams have been installed to support the exterior structure until permanent repairs take place. More than $300 thousand dollars will be spent on the exterior renovations that will also included improved accessibility enhancements.
The building is the former location of the Collingwood Post Office and Customs offices, and HRDC offices, and now is home to Georgian College .
Description - From www.heritagecollingwood.com:
Marble-fronted, Beaux-Arts Post Office with central, three-bay, Corinthian-order portico with central pediment, set between lower, three-bay, Doric porticoes, all with balustraded parapets and coffered bronze ceilings, and built in front of ashlar wall of two-storey building (housing three doors) and with dentilled and modillioned upper metal cornice (and hidden gutter) under battened, copper, hip roof (1913-15). This remarkable marble building, reportedly modelled on the Government House in Havana, pays tribute to the Greek Temple. Just as much in Main Street derives from the Renaissance and Classical world, or European fortified architecture, this building in particular, in material, form and detail, makes reference to ancient Greece.
