The Winterholme Building - Integrated Project Dossier (2015)

The Winterholme Building was built in 1865 and was considered to be one of Sandy Hill’s Estates. The building is significant due to its former occupation by Sir Sandford Fleming. Mr. Fleming was involved in surveying the route through the Prairie Provinces that later became the Canadian National Railway. He was also credited with the invention of standard time and time zones. Due to the migration of wealthy families away from the downtown core, the Winterholme building was converted to a multiple family tenement after 1925 [1, 2] and renamed the Chapel Court Apartments [3-9]. This grand building is taller than most of the surrounding buildings, is constructed of stone, and is set back from both the Daly Avenue and Chapel Street property lines. Most other buildings in the area are only within a few metres of the street and other property lines. The building is located at 311 Daly Avenue, on the northeast corner of the intersection of Daly Avenue and Chapel Street, one and a half blocks south of Rideau Street and six blocks east of Waller Street. This is the Integrated Project Dossier compiled by a group of undergraduate students of the Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Program (Engineers and architects) at Carleton University for the CIVE3207 (ARCN4100) Historic Site Recording and Assessment course in 2014.