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Exterior image of the side and back of the Bawcutt Centre. Construction crews are onsite and removing a portion of an outbuilding. A large digger is parked in the foreground.

News Alert - Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Demolition work at the new Main Branch Library (currently known as the Bawcutt Centre; formerly known as the Paris Old Town Hall) continues this week with the removal of the non-heritage 1964 addition that once housed the Mary Maxim Company.

Date & time:

Beginning Tuesday, August 22, 2023, and ending Wednesday, August 23, 2023.

Location:

Bawcutt Centre, 13 Burwell Street, Paris, Ontario, N3L 2C4

Additional details:

Demolition is overseen by Collaborative Structures Limited (CSL). Residents can expect to see machinery on-site for use in controlled demolitions. Removing the addition will stabilize and protect the remaining structure before winter.

Photos and video of the demolition will be posted to the County of Brant Public Library's social media accounts as they become available: @BrantLibrary on Facebook and Twitter and @BrantCountyPublicLibrary on Instagram.

About the new Main Branch Library:

Community efforts to save, preserve, and repurpose the Old Town Hall began in the 1980s. County Council purchased the building in 2015 with the support of a $1,000,000 donation from Skystone Media CEO Linda Schuyler. The building was renamed the Bawcutt Centre in honour of Schuyler’s father, Jack Bawcutt, a former mayor of the Town of Paris.

In October 2020, the Bawcutt Centre received federal recognition as a National Historic Site. It is the oldest example of a Gothic Revival-style civic building in Canada.

On June 27, 2023, County of Brant Council approved architectural designs for the new Main Branch Library. View the design at brantlibrary.ca/NewMainBranch.

Questions or comments?

Kelly Bernstein, CEO
County of Brant Public Library
Email Kelly   |   519-442-2433

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