66 mohawk - feb 20
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Cockshutt Plow Company Office and Timekeepers Building66 Mohawk Street, Brantford, Ontario
Office Building
Remaining Warehouse
Timekeepers Building
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Key Architectural Features
triple arch frontispiece with
stone drip moulding
carved namestone
corbelled brick cornice
solid stone string courses
solid stone transom bars
parapet with namestone
triple arch with stone drip
carved namestone
brick and stone porch
carved datestones
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Foundation / First FloorThe foundation walls of the raisedbasement are coursed range, rock-faced limestone topped with a single
course of smooth dressed limestone.
The main exterior wall material is apressed red brick laid in a stretcherbond pattern. A recessed single brick
course creates a rusticatedappearance on the first floor wall
surface and corner pilasters.
The first floor outer bays havewindow heads with brick voussoirs in
a skewback arch. The front left cornerwindows have are double-hungsashes with 3/3 horizontal panes.
The top of the first floor is indicatedby a rock-faced stone string course
over four courses of corbelled brick.
stone string course
corbelled brick
corner pilaster
recessed brick course
smooth dressed
limestone
coursed rock-facedlimestone
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North Elevation
The north elevation continuesthe design of the side bays in
the front faade.
Three symmetrical bayscontain double-hung windowswith brick voussoir heads in askewback arch.
The centre and right bays of
the first floor have windowsashes with 3/3 horizontalpanes. The first floor, centre
bay has a grouping of threenarrow windows. Thesefeatures may indicate thecompanys executive offices.
The side entrance door has awooden panel surround andcontains side and transom
lights as in the front entranceporch.
3/3 horizontal
window panes
3 window grouping
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Feature Windows
The outer bays of the triple arch frontispiece contain single window units with double-
hung sashes 1/1 and a single transom window pane. The central bay has coupled
windows divided by a wooden mullion. All windows have a stone lug sill but the
unusual feature here is the large, solid stone transom bar.
stone lintel
wooden mullion
stone sill
transom windows
stone transom bar
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stone drip moulding
namestone
stone lintel
wooden mullion
stone transom bar
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Decorative BrickworkThe transition between the second floor, third floor and roof level is indicated by four
courses of corbelled brick. The third floor has a stone string course just over the
skewback arch brick window heads. The corner pilasters rise to a corbelled brick
capital (Tuscan Doric style) supporting a brickwork architrave/frieze. Above this is a
large cornice composed of corbelled brick courses, header brick dentils (alternating)
and a stone cornice cap or coping. The frontispiece top appears to have had some sort
of parapet since removed.
coping
brick dentils (alternating)
architrave/frieze
capital
stone string course
smooth pilaster
corbelled brick
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Main Entrance Porch
A focal point in the symmetrical designof the office building faade is the brickand stone entrance porch. The three-sided front steps are substantial in sizeleading to a wide porch opening. Theentrance has since been closed in witha wooden frame surrounding a singledoor, three transom lights and singleside lights.
T
he front corners of the porch havethree piers with brick shafts, stonecapitals and bases. Each groupstands on a single, large datestonebase. The left base is carved with thedate of the companys establishment(1877) and the right with theconstruction date of this particularbuilding (1903) - 25 years in business.
The piers support a stone entabulature
and a brick parapet. The triangularpeak has a stone coping and containsa carved namestone.
parapet
entabulature
capital
shaft
side light
datestone
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Timekeepers Building
This small, gable roof building had an impressive brick faade added in 1912.Its features were modelled on the Company Office building beside it with little
deviation. The faade sillhouette is similar to the Office porch parapet but withtwo steps leading to a rectangular top. The three rounded arches are usedagain but with much larger proportions. Each arch springs from a stone stringcourse across the entire width of the building front. As in the Office faade, thecentre bay holds a carved namestone over a single coupled window unit with a
solid stone transom bar.
parapet
step
namestone
stone string course
stone transom bar
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Warehouse Building
Heavy timber interior structural
members
repetition of 3 corbelled header
bricks in cornice
12 identical 3-storey bays
windows are double-hung with
semi-circular brick heads and
stone lug sills
poured concrete loading platform
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Grinding,Mounting and Blacksmith Shops
(south east on Mohawk Street)
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Brantford Fire Insurance Map (1919)