CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The City of Ottawa is taking Richcraft Homes to court, alleging the builder has neglected to make necessary repairs to a historic barn in the city's west end.

There's still time to have your say on the future of Sparks Street—take the online survey at ottawa.ca/sparksstreetplan or email your ideas to mysparksstreet@ottawa.ca .

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By…

FORMER CONVENT COULD BE PARTIALLY DEMOLISHED, RENTED OUT FOR COMMERCIAL USE

CBC NEWS

Ashcroft Homes presented its plans for the redevelopment of a 19th century convent to a room…

CBC NEWS, By Matthew Kupfer

A community-led for-profit group is trying to preserve the community functions of…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Our new book is a hit!

From Walk-Up to High Rise: Ottawa's Historic Apartment Buildings launched on December 13 to a standing-room only crowd at Dominion-Chalmers…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Joe Lofaro

The Fairmont Château Laurier has shut down its aging parking garage for safety reasons as its owners seek approval from the city to demolish it and build a…

CTV NEWS OTTAWA, Ted Raymond, Newstalk 580 CFRA

The City’s Built Heritage sub-committee will be voting on an application next week that requests the old parking garage at the Fairmont…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The City of Ottawa will have a 15-member planning advisory committee, significantly expanding the membership from a previous proposal that overwhelmingly…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

What do you think the City should consider as it develops a plan for the revitalization of the Sparks Street Pedestrian Mall?

Share your ideas and comments! Take a…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Carolyn Quinn

The latest book publication from Heritage Ottawa, titled From Walk-Up to High-Rise: Ottawa’s Historic Apartment Buildings, launched to a standing-room-only…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

A Nepean community’s hope to transform a historic estate into a neighbourhood park is fading with a developer’s new plan to build 13 new homes on the lush…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

Council gave the green-light to the redevelopment of an Old Ottawa South church after the applicant, Windmill Development Group, revised its proposed…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Ashcroft Homes, owner of the Sisters of the Visitation Convent at 114 Richmond Road, is proposing to partially demolish the heritage-designated convent building and to…

CBC OTTAWA, By Judy Trinh

Another pitched development battle is brewing in Westboro over a new proposal by Ashcroft Homes to partially demolish a 19th-century convent designated as a…

CENTRETOWN NEWS, By Kiera Kowalski

A passion for architecture and history has brought together a team of apartment-loving intellectuals for Heritage Ottawa’s latest book launch.

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CBC News | Ottawa

Carleton University is entering into talks to purchase Ottawa's Dominion-Chalmers United Church, with plans to turn the historic downtown building into a performance space…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Tom Spears

Dominion-Chalmers United Church would be a heavenly place for Carleton University students to make music, the university decided Tuesday night as its governors…

CARLETON NEWSROOM

Carleton University’s Board of Governors has approved a motion to begin negotiating the potential purchase of Dominion-Chalmers United Church for use as a multi-purpose…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

Ottawa city councillors have asked a landmark church in Old Ottawa South to lower the height  of a proposed condo development over fears it could ruin the view…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Carolyn Quinn

It is with great sadness that we share news of the loss of Jennifer Rosebrugh, a long-time member and former president of Heritage Ottawa, who passed away…

OTTAWA MAGAZINE | City Bites, By Sara Brown

Flora Hall Brewing launched recently, welcoming guests to a two-floor, 120-seat space with lofty ceilings and a second-floor mezzanine with…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

A proposed modern addition to a 90-year-old house overlooking McKay Lake in Rockcliffe Park has become the battleground for residents who fear city hall is…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Ottawa Cultural Alliance (OCA) is a collaboration between six organizations, including Heritage Ottawa, working together to help strengthen and advance Ottawa's cultural…

OTTAWA MAGAZINE, By Lisa Gregoire

Tim Murray carefully climbs the stairs in an abandoned church he designed more than 50 years ago on what were, in the 1960s, farm fields on the outskirts…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa has been honoured with an award from the National Trust for Canada.

Presented on Friday evening at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, The National…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Main streets often include heritage buildings that are important elements of a city's identity and character. But as our cities and towns inevitably intensify, it's critical…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa invites applications for the Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Grant.  The grant program was created in 2008 and is named in honour of the late…

CENTRETOWN NEWS, By Kelly Millar and Nate Dove

Carleton University has already received offers of major donations for the possible purchase of Dominion-Chalmers United Church as a…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

A research project by Hagit Hadaya, a recipient of Heritage Ottawa's GORDON CULLINGHAM RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION GRANT, has culminated in the publication of a book, At Home…

THE HTA BLOG / By Peter Coffman

I addressed the City’s Planning Committee today as it met to vote on additions to the Heritage Register recommended last month by City staff. I blogged about…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Laura Osman

The City of Ottawa's planning committee added hundreds of properties to the city's heritage register, but agreed to hold off on eight buildings because the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland, Co-Chair

The Heritage Inventory Project is a priority for the City of Ottawa. The Inventory Project was created to develop a proper Heritage Register to…

CBC News, By Laura Osman

Just four years ago, Ottawa heritage consultant David Flemming walked…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Cities value their unique heritage. Cultural and ecological benefits aside, studies have shown that designated heritage properties perform better than average in the real…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Mark Brandt and Carolyn Quinn

Heritage Ottawa is pleased to share this remarkable video tribute that celebrates the contributions of eight heritage conservation "…

THE HTA BLOG / By Peter Coffman

Early last year, the City of Ottawa began what’s known as the Heritage Inventory Project. The idea was to enable…

CBC NEWS, By Kristy Nease

The National Capital Commission (NCC) is falling behind on keeping its properties in good condition and didn't properly inform the government about the steps it…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

When Carleton University heads found out three of the school’s buildings were poised to land on a city heritage register, they couldn’t comprehend how such a…

METRO NEWS, By Kieran Delamont

City staff are recommending that 358 buildings—or, roughly 11 per cent of Old Ottawa East and Ottawa South—be added to the heritage register.

Done as…

CBC NEWS, By Andrew Foote

The National Capital Commission is inviting the public to help it dig, sift and scrape its way through the capital's history this August as part of its annual…

OTTAWA BUSINESS JOURNAL

Nearly a decade after the Rideau Canal was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the federal government is looking to construct a series of interpretive “nodes” to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa is saddened to learn of the passing of John Arnold (1934-2017), a long serving member of our Board of Directors until his retirement in 2010. 

A…

Heritage Ottawa has long advocated for the restoration and adaptive reuse of heritage structures which contribute so much to our urban fabric. A new study indicates that 80% of millenials in the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre in Gatineau, seldom open to the public, will soon begin offering guided tours in both English and French.

The…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

When Ottawa city council gave Ashcroft Homes approval to develop the former Westboro convent lands, it was with the understanding that the developer would…

CBC News, By Laurie Fagan

Sheena Pritchard has lived in her Echo Drive home for 53 years and while she has no plans to move or renovate, she doesn't want the city adding her house — along…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

An Ottawa city councillor fed up with the proliferation of what he calls high-occupancy "bunkhouses" in his ward is invoking a new rule that will force the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

Eliane Major remembers her brothers helping Lester B. Pearson push his car out of the snowy driveway of 231 Cobourg St. in the 1950s, when her family lived…

CBC News, By Joanne Chianello

Peter Hume, a former Ottawa city councillor and planning committee chair, has been picked to oversee the revitalization of the the ByWard and Parkdale markets…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Joanne Laucius

The NAC is throwing open its doors to the public on Canada Day to offer a look at the first phase of a project aimed at turning Ottawa’s fortress-like…