A space that’s inviting and clean – and 167 years old

If one can avert their eyes from the tall, majestic, arched window about seven or eight feet away, the photograph applied to the office window is fascinating: on the far left is the former Union Cemetery up on Vinegar Hill; then, the John and Ada Vance house on Board Street, which became the CPR’s Waterdown South station ; moving to the right, it’s the old Dundas Street bridge over Grindstone Creek; and, finally, the 1870 Eager house, which the family owned for three generations.

“They’ve maintained everything that was important,” she continues, “and they’ve made the space inviting, clean, modern, but old.” To be clear, the squirrels moved in when the library moved out and before the Browns purchased in 2017 for a little more than $1-million. Speaking of which, while the building wasn’t in terrible condition the Browns did put a great deal more money – about $750,000 – as well as love, sweat, and thought into the restoration, and it shows.

“What would the inside look like, what would the flooring look like? There were very few interior photos of the building that existed, mostly exterior, but, as a result we rebuilt the front to replicate the original.” Upstairs, where the library had placed washrooms and, incredulously, boarded up the top portion of the aforementioned arched window, there is now clean, functional office space. And although the team uncovered a steel beam fairly close to the big window during renovations, they were able to create a tiny barrel vault around it before dropping the ceiling to reconceal the beam. In the main foyer space opposite, a much larger barrel vault has been created where there may have been one originally.

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