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Sandy Hill
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There is a great variety of housing in this neighbourhood, ranging from the mid 1800s to to early 1900's.
Stone houses, rowhouses, early 20C apartments, mansions--lots of things to like. Read the sign below for more.

This tour shows Sandy Hill north of Laurier, I'll save the University of Ottawa and the rest of this neighbourhood for another tour.



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Great images once again, flar.

And thanks for the memories! I lived in Sandy Hill for almost twelve years. It's an easy walk to downtown, to the Byward Market, the Rideau River and the canal. The neighbourhood has quite the mix of building-uses - including many beautifully restored homes, lots of student housing and numerous embassies.
 
Welcome back flar and great tour as usual. About half way through, I can't believe you got 2 vintage convertible Mercedes in one shot.
 
Looks gorgeous. Thanks for these! I think they highlight one of the (few) interesting things about Ottawa, urbanistically speaking: its status as a no-man's-land between Toronto and Montreal. Many of its residential buildings are clearly influenced by typically Ontarian, brick bay-and-gable type construction, while others use stone and are more square, in the Quebec tradition.

It's a fun mix. The only similar place I know of in North America is New Haven, which has a bizarre amalgam of New York (brownstones) and Boston (wooden freestanding houses) as well as, of course, an amazing clutch of Modernism.
 
Welcome back flar and great tour as usual. About half way through, I can't believe you got 2 vintage convertible Mercedes in one shot.

Yeah, what's up with that?

Thanks flar. Hope you are comfortably settled in.
 
yet another great flar photo thread!
 
Sadly, some of those places are still student ghettos. The landlords often do the bare minimum to keep some of those buildings standing. If they ever get the students out, this neighbourhood would be a dream for the gentrification set.
 
Sadly, some of those places are still student ghettos. The landlords often do the bare minimum to keep some of those buildings standing. If they ever get the students out, this neighbourhood would be a dream for the gentrification set.
Well considering that the University of Ottawa is in the neighbourhood, they'll never "get the students out". Nor should they.

Great pics, flar. Looking forward to part 2 of the neighbourhood.
 
I found that the students added something to the fabric of the neighbourhood (some life). They tend to offset the relative deadness of many of the nearby embassies. I used to live right by the Ugandan embassy, and I swear I never saw a soul go in or out of that place in two years. The Croatian embassy, however, put on a couple of big garden parties a few times a year, and were happy to show off the beautiful historic preservation of their building during Doors Open (it's shown eleventh from the top).

That being said, Sandy Hill north has less student housing than south of Laurier. It's there that you tend to find the apartments, house divisions and additions where large populations of students live. The exception would be at the eastern edge of Sandy Hill - particularly along Range Road.

The Royal Oak shown in one of flar's great photos is a notorious student hangout (on Laurier right next to a relatively new student residence building).

Royal Oak - the McDonald's of Beer.
 
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Flar: A interesting Ottawa neighborhood: Sandy Hill...

Flar: Good pics of the Sandy Hill neighborhood of Ottawa!
I noticed the use of gray stonework or orange color bricks mostly through.
Are there counsulates in this area? It looks like a really nice part of Ottawa!
I will post some noteables next time around-LI MIKE
 
Well considering that the University of Ottawa is in the neighbourhood, they'll never "get the students out". Nor should they.

Great pics, flar. Looking forward to part 2 of the neighbourhood.

I wasn't advocating for wholesale eviction of students. It would be nice to see landlords take better care of those beautiful properties. It's so sad to see so many of them run down. And now it seems many are being bulldozed to build condos. That's truly unfortunate.
 
I wasn't advocating for wholesale eviction of students.

Well, come the start and end of the university semester, you could probably utter that sentiment to local home owners and not get any protest. There are some wild times in Sandy Hill.
 
Yeah, student housing has its issues. But there's really no getting around it.

I wasn't advocating for wholesale eviction of students. It would be nice to see landlords take better care of those beautiful properties. It's so sad to see so many of them run down. And now it seems many are being bulldozed to build condos. That's truly unfortunate.
On that we can agree.
 
Sandy Hill-Ottawa Pics - notable here...

Flar: As I promised I wanted to comment on the Sandy Hill area of Ottawa.
Language-wise is it mixed as I suspect?
Good row house varieties in these pics: #3,6,8,9,25,29,49,52,55,57 and 76.
#15-Nice front driveway!
#32-Interesting mission-even Ottawa's "Down and Out" look OK!
#35-Nice brownstone building...
#38-Nice "500" Building!
#64-Canada's Amnesty International HQ-are there other national offices
for other noteable groups there?
#81,82-Are they fast on removing graffiti tags there?
#85-A nice apartment building...
Thanks again for another good group of pics! LI MIKE
 
Flar: As I promised I wanted to comment on the Sandy Hill area of Ottawa.
Language-wise is it mixed as I suspect?
Good row house varieties in these pics: #3,6,8,9,25,29,49,52,55,57 and 76.
#15-Nice front driveway!
#32-Interesting mission-even Ottawa's "Down and Out" look OK!
#35-Nice brownstone building...
#38-Nice "500" Building!
#64-Canada's Amnesty International HQ-are there other national offices
for other noteable groups there?
#81,82-Are they fast on removing graffiti tags there?
#85-A nice apartment building...
Thanks again for another good group of pics! LI MIKE

To answer your questions LI Mike:
Quite a few rowhouses, though many are much different in form than the ones I was used to in Hamilton. I think this neighbourhood was traditionally a mix of French and English, it now hosts a lot of students as well as embassies. There are many national offices in Ottawa, especially for various NGOs. As capital, many organizations also have branch offices in Ottawa. I think the bylaws in Ottawa require grafitti to be removed by the owner within a certain amount of time. And...that apartment in #85 is one of the neatest old apartment buildings I've seen. It's quite massive too.


Thanks!
 

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