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Location DB > Canada > Ontario > Hamilton > Smart-Turner Building
 Name
Smart-Turner Building
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 Database Info
created by Jupiter on 3/12/2006 10:06 PM
last modified by Boffo on 1/10/2016 6:40 PM
 Viewability
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
 Overview
 Description
Insides are gutted and under construction.

-- December 2008 - Destroyed by fire during restoration
 Basic Information
Type: Building
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: Difficult
Recommendation: not very exciting
 Physical Information
Address
191 Barton St. E
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada
Owner: Hamilton Health Sciences
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  •  Hazards
  • unsafe flooring
  •  Interesting Features
    Beams of light in the attic. If you don't have a camera though, it might be pretty boring. But at least it's historic.
     Security Measures
  • fences
  • locked gates
  • wooden boarding
  •  Historical Dates
    Built: 1876
    Closed: 1996
     Required Equipment
  • flashlight
  • long pants / sleeves
  •  Recommended Equipment
    Camera
     History
    The site at 191 Barton Street East was a highly desirable location for industrial development. Not only did the Hamilton & Lake Erie Railway line run adjacent to the property, but the main Grand Trunk Railway line ran east-west just a few blocks
    north of Barton Street. This allowed for the companies operating at the site to have ready access to the shipping and receiving of goods and raw materials. The stone building at 191 Barton Street East was built between 1876 and 1877 by the maltster, William Osborne. The building was thus most likely used for the purpose of germinating and drying the malt. The earliest known malt houses were simple structures with massive stone walls with floors of stone. Small windows set in these heavy walls were theonly means of ventilation.

    In 1884, Osborne entered into a partnership with Joseph H. Killey, an engineer with a business in Hamilton, forming the Osborne, Killey Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of engines, boilers, steam fire engines and scales. At this time anumber of foundry buildings were constructed on the site and the original malt house was easily adapted to the manufacturing use given its large floor-plate and open concept plan.

    The former malt house became the home of the Smart Eby Company in 1900. Founded in 1899 by William G. Smart and Albert H. Eby, the Smart Eby Machine Company Limited manufactured engines and boilers in the stone building at 191 Barton Street East. In 1902 the company was renamed Smart-Turner, with William G. Smart serving as President and John A. Turner serving as Vice-President, until succeeding Smart as President upon his death in the 1930s. At the time of its incorporation, Smart-Turner was among a small group of machinists operating in the City of Hamilton, among them the Hamilton Tool and Optical Co., Limited on Murray Street, and the George Webster Company on King Street East—neither of which exists today.

    By 1910 the Smart-Turner Company employed 75 skilled mechanics and was considered to be standing at the head of the many large and substantial industries of Hamilton in the importance and immensity of its business interests—no small
    feat given that Hamilton was one of the greatest manufacturing centres in Canada. Smart-Turner was the leading producer of pumping machinery of all kinds, not only in Hamilton but across the country.

    The Smart-Turner plant on Barton Street East soon expanded beyond the 1876-77 stone building as is evidenced in the 1911 Fire Insurance Plan. According to the 1910 Souvenir Edition of the Magazine of Industry, the company operated out of “a group of strong stone buildings erected for this heavy work, having an enormous floor space and the best and most modern machinery installed in all departments.” The 1876-77 stone building was, by this time, used as the pattern storage, while the machine shop was located in a long narrow brick building behind (this building is no longer extant).

    The company continued to expand during WWII and again in 1960 when it briefly amalgamated with the Hamilton-Thomas Corporation of Hamilton, Ohio. This merger broadened the product lines manufactured at the plant and, as evidenced
    on the 1964 Fire Insurance Plan, numerous additions were appended to the brick buildings to the rear of the plant and the original stone building (the subject of this assessment) was used as barrel storage, in association with the Erie Steel Barrel Company.

    By 1968 the plant consisted of 40,000 square feet of space and employed 60 people.

    In 1996 the Smart-Turner Building ceased being used as an industrial building and was later purchased by the Niagara Peninsula Aboriginal Area Management Board with the intention of converting it to an aboriginal entrepreneurial centre, but the plan was never completed. The company itself continued to operate elsewhere under new ownership and currently the Smart-Turner Pump Company maintains its head office, plant and main sales office in Brantford, Ontario.

    Courtesy: The Cultural Heritage Assessment Report, available online at http://www.myhamil.../Dec06PED05197.pdf

    -- December 2008 - Destroyed by fire during restoration
     Media Coverage

     Future Plans
    Mark Preece Family House:

    "The house will serve the families of adult patients in Hamilton area hospitals. It will provide affordable, accessible and safe accommodation close to the Hamilton General Hospital, a prime focus site for critical care."
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    That's not good...
    Sat, Mar 11th, 2006
    posted by Jupiter
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    WTF? ----->
    Sat, Mar 11th, 2006
    posted by Boffo
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     Web Links
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    Coolness 6 / 10
    Content Quality 9 / 10
     Validation
    This location's validation is current. It was last validated by Steed on 1/22/2016 8:10 AM.

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  • on Jan 22 16 at 8:10, Steed validated this location
  • on Jan 10 16 at 18:40, Boffo changed the following: Status
  • on Dec 5 08 at 13:11, Opheliaism validated this location
  • on Dec 5 08 at 12:35, Stewie changed the following: History, Description
  • on Jul 25 08 at 6:59, Steed validated this location
  • on May 15 08 at 16:15, Stewie changed the following: Owner, Status, Hazards, Recommendation, Security Measures, Future Plans, Description, Web Links
  • on Mar 5 07 at 14:11, Emperor Wang validated this location
  • on Mar 5 07 at 13:01, Stewie changed the following: Accessibility
  • on Jan 3 07 at 17:47, Emperor Wang validated this location
  • on Jan 3 07 at 8:44, Boffo updated gallery WTF? ----->
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