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Heritage Hunt 2025

Since 1983, the Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (PACAC) has been organizing the Heritage Hunt as a way to explore and celebrate Peterborough's heritage. 

The aim of the Heritage Hunt is to find and identify the location of 34 architectural details within the area shown on the map below. All details are clearly visible from public areas. When you or your group have found them, fill in the address or describe the location if an address is not easily apparent beside each image below.

You can save your progress on this form and return to it at another time by selecting the Save button at the bottom of this page. You will be prompted to enter an email or copy and save your link. 

Complete this form and submit by October 3, 2025. Happy hunting!

Top detail of a Heritage building

Map

The section of the Old West End, lined in green in the map below, is where you will find the 34 architectural details. All details are clearly visible from public areas. Please be respectful of your neighbours and stay on sidewalks and public pathways. Remember to look on both sides of the street!

Map of Heritage Hunt route

  • Weller Street between Monaghan Road and Park Street North
  • Homewood Avenue between Belmont Avenue and Monaghan Road
  • Belmont Avenue between Weller Street and Homewood Avenue
  • Monaghan Road between Weller and Homewood
  • A section of Hunter Street West between Reid Street and Park Street
  • Reid Street between Charlotte Street and Hunter Street
  • Park Street North between Weller Street and Charlotte Street

Locations

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White painted wooden feature with red and blue trim

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architectural detail with pattern of connected squares with circles inside

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A stone surface, similar to cobblestone, with pink, grey stones

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detail of bricks in a rhombus shape

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Trim over a window forms a sharp triangle with a clover cut-out detail, wood painted white

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rectangular wooden columns with trim detail, white and grey, on a porch

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wooden triangular detail at top of a column with a botanical cut-out. White painted wood

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Elaborate geometric shape of carved and cut wood around a window, high on a building

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Red brick entryway with curve; a grey brick is placed at the top of the curve. There is a small metal hook-like item affixed to the brick above

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Dormer window with a semi-circle arch above, wood trim in buttery yellow and white. Building surface is white stucco

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Bonus Questions

For the expert (and not so expert), there are three bonus questions. These Doors Open Peterborough sites aren’t on the route but see if you can spot them on Saturday, September 13 or by visiting www.doorsopenontario.on.ca.

Do you want to answer the bonus questions?
 
Are you participating as a team or an individual?
 
Preferred method of contact
 

Once your form is complete, click the Submit button below. Thank you and good luck!



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