Guelph Ontario - Canada - 72 MacDonald Street - New Western Hotel - Heritage Building

            72 Macdonell Street New Western Hotel
John Fielding built the “New
Western Hotel” in 1881. This
four-storey, Second Empire
style, limestone structure has a
mansard roof that features a
central tower with a bracketed
cornice. The small iron balcony over the front entrance was a popular feature from 1865 to the 1880s. This building was called the “New” Western Hotel in homage to the Great Western Hotel which had been located on the corner to the west. In 1881 there were 18 licensed hotels, plus many other unlicensed establishments, in Guelph’s downtown core. The large number of liquor vendors gave Macdonell Street the nickname of Whiskey Street. It was standard practice for the hotel proprietor’s family to live in the hotel, along with the paying guests. One such innkeeper was John McAteer who ran the New Western from 1886 to 1896. He advertised the hotel as “the best $1 hotel in town.” From 1901 to 1960 three generations of the Singular family owned and operated the hotel. They renamed it the Ambassador Hotel in 1950 (above 1974) and in 1975 it was
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called the Diplomat Hotel. During the end of the twentieth century the building fell into a state of disrepair as it became a residential hotel for a struggling clientele. After 134 years it has been given new life by the current owners who have completely renovated the interior and refurbished the heritage exterior, with the assistance
of a grant from the City of Guelph as part of the downtown activation program. It now has reclaimed its original name and operates with twenty luxury suites ranging in size from bachelor units to a penthouse that includes the entire fourth floor
   

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Taken on: June 10, 2016

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