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UER Forum > Archived Canada: Ontario > New Renfrew Location? (Viewed 320 times) hedd  Location: Ottawa, ON, CA Gender: Male  |  |  New Renfrew Location? < on 10/31/2006 9:39 PM >   I was driving through Renfrew on the weekend and pulled over when I saw this place. It's obviously quite old, and obviously quite abandoned. I took a walk around and snapped a few photos, and was pretty surprised to find out that it isn't listed in our DB here (actually, pretty surprised that nothing in Renfrew is listed, seeing as it's a pretty old town). I looked around online but had a hard time digging up any history about it. However there is a few pieces of scrap metal nailed to one side of the building, and I am told that the paint on it looks like part of an old logo for a Renfrew Flour Mill. I don't have any photos of that side though. Here is the place: click to view Just right of centre in the above photo you can see a glass door (which looks really out of place on this building, by the way). Here's what I could make out through the glass: click to view The place looks fairly clean inside, and the ladder, etc, makes me suspect it's getting some renovation work. Walking further around the building I came to this: click to view ...which unfortunately was not an entrance. The "ANCE" part of the door had a bit of give to it, but was nailed at the top so it wouldn't open far enough to get someone inside. Not without some B&E work anyways. And with it being mid-afternoon and all with traffic zipping by, I declined. Coming around another corner I was standing here: click to view This door also had some flexibility to it, and opened just far enough for me to get my lens inside for a flash shot: click to view Not sure what that stuff is in the background, but the neatly piled lumber again makes me think someone's cleaning the place up. Also the Ralph & Milton Electrical Contractors truck in the next shot: click to view Here's what I could see looking in through a partially open basement window: click to view And the side of the building: click to view Anyways, does anybody know anything about this place? - BG oddspot  Location: Small Town Alberta Gender: Male  |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 1 on 11/1/2006 6:03 PM >   I don't know anything about the place but if I was a betting man....i'd say it looks like a candidate for a loft condo. Brick walls, exposed wood, tall windows/ceilings Even A Genius Has Questions!?! I do things because I choose to, not because I have to. My Life, My Rules - No Exceptions! fedge  Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male you blight up my life™®  |  |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 2 on 11/1/2006 9:49 PM >   Posted by oddspot I don't know anything about the place but if I was a betting man....i'd say it looks like a candidate for a loft condo. Brick walls, exposed wood, tall windows/ceilings That last pic looks like the handiwork of looters perhaps? 18-odd Years Of UER-ing! hedd  Location: Ottawa, ON, CA Gender: Male  |  |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 3 on 11/1/2006 10:35 PM >   What looks looted? Shit I didn't notice til now but there's a bit of paint left from an old sign in that last photo... I'll take a look at the original photo later and see if I can make it out. Something... Valley... something... limited? - BG hedd  Location: Ottawa, ON, CA Gender: Male  |  |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 4 on 11/7/2006 7:35 PM >   So nobody knows anything about this place? Is it worthwhile adding to the DB? - BG fedge  Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male you blight up my life™®  |  |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 5 on 11/8/2006 3:49 AM >   Posted by hedd What looks looted? The last pic...it looks like "somebody" ripped off the exterior sidings. 18-odd Years Of UER-ing! hedd  Location: Ottawa, ON, CA Gender: Male  |  |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 6 on 11/8/2006 4:31 AM >   Oh for sure... I thought you maybe meant the kicked-in window or something. Siding or no siding, it didn't really detract from the look of the place. - BG renfrewguy   |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 7 on 11/9/2006 7:29 PM >   that is the old ottawa valley grain building , a guy has purchased with plans for a night club and rib place. it has not been used in years. he took the metal siding off for some reason. restoring it ??but more then likely the metal was worth more as scrap i am from renfrew so that is the news on that site hedd  Location: Ottawa, ON, CA Gender: Male  |  |  Re: New Renfrew Location? <Reply # 8 on 11/9/2006 8:00 PM >   Thanks for the info renfrewguy! - BG UER Forum > Archived Canada: Ontario > New Renfrew Location? 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