The Gibson Centre, Alliston,
located at:
63 Tupper Street West,
Alliston, ON L9R 1E4
ph: 705.435.2828
was built in 1889 by the Mercer Manufacturing Company to manufacture farm machinery and was built to the south of the town of Alliston. It was constructed using local virgin timber and local brick in the second empire style, similar to Canada's Parliament buildings.
Bought by the Gibson's, a local family and owners of Gibson Transport, in the 1960's, Leonard and Bing Gibson donated this building and one acre of land to the community for $1 on July 1st, 2001.
It is currently run as the non-profit Gibson Cultural Centre Corporation
Chris Smith CSSBB
Sales Representative
Interested in Buying or Selling Real Estate?
ph: 1.866.936.3500
Re/Max
Chay Realty Inc., Brokerage
Chris,
This is very good information to have available. Thanks for re-blogging, and next time don't disable the comments.
People want to leave a note for you, not me.
I appreciate that others on AR think differently.
Brian
Gibson Centre is an impressive building, Brian. btw,I generally disable comments on re-blogs, Brian.