MADE
IN HAMILTON
19TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL
SITE
26
HAMILTON TOOL MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, 1872
At
the south-west corner of Bay and Barton Streets stands an impressive building
erected in the early 20th century as offices for the Hamilton Bridge Company.
The 2-storey upper façade, rising from the sloping stone foundation, exhibits
intricate brick detailing and a bold crowning cornice with paired brackets,
in the Renaissance Revival style. The company's works once covered the whole
block bounded by Barton, Tiffany, Caroline and Stuart Streets.
Early
machine tool production was not profitable. Fortunes revived when the company
took a contract to build a new railway swing bridge over the Burlington Canal
in 1876. After this, bridge fabrication became the core business of the newly
re-named Hamilton Bridge Company. The company began moving production to a large
new facility in east Hamilton in 1910.
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