Top 3 Abandoned Places In Oakville

There are so many abandoned places in Oakville! This is a list of the top three abandoned places in Oakville. Browse through all abandoned places in Oakville

1. Edgemere Mansion

A 32,000 square-foot mansion set on 5.7 acres of prime Lakeshore property. It was listed at $45,000,000 and sold for $35,000,000. Built by Mattamy Homes president Peter Gilgan in 1994. The original home that was on the property for over 80 years was torn down in 1992. The property still includes the original boathouse and greenhouses.

The property included a massive Georgian-style mansion, boathouse, four-car garage, pool, private pebble beach, its own baseball diamond and 300 metres of shoreline.

The 32,000-square-foot house contained 17 bathrooms, 20-seat-theatre and spa.

Demolition is taking place to make way for 30 condominiums, priced from $2.7 million to $6.9 million and ranging in size from about 2,700 to 5,500 square feet.

Several heritage artifacts on the property, including a gardener's cottage, stable, teahouse, greenhouse and boathouse will be restored and preserved.

2. Taras Shevchenko Park

The Taras H. Shevchenko Museum and Memorial Park Foundation owns a beautiful 16 acre park near Oakville, Ontario alone the Dundas Highway near the town of Palermo. In the center of the park the stately monument of Taras Shevchenko, cast in bronze, with its pedestal of marble is standing majestically against the blue Canadian sky.

A 3-metre bronze statue of iconic Ukrainian Taras Shevchenko, erected in an Oakville park named for him in 1951, has been chopped off at the feet by vandals and carted away.

The statue, a gift to the 500,000 Ukrainians then in Canada from Soviet Society For Cultural Relations Abroad and valued at more than $350,000, was the center of controversy at the time and for a while was under 24-hour police guard. Erected to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, it stood for more than 55 years atop a 70-tonne granite base in a 6.5-hectare park, which was surrounded by another 47 hectares of parkland along Sixteen Mile Creek that once was home to a children's camp. While the camp closed in 1998, many still visit the park to see the historical figure. When the statue was erected in 1951, around 40 thousand people attended its unveiling.

3. 1470 Bronte Road

A lovely old farmhouse with several out buildings on Bronte Road.

The charm of this home is the staircase, they have preserved some walls inside but the staircase seems to be what they have left as is. There is a crawlspace basement and a cool attic/upstairs that smells like (and sounds like) Raccoon.

The exterior is beautiful, red brick, decorative wooden fixtures and original trees in the front that are being protected.

The home is known as "Oakhurst" or the "Inglehart Home", it was previously inhabited by William Cyrus Inglehart and family. William Inglehart was born in 1823 and died in 1917

08 Oct 2015

Fire (most likely arson) engulfed the home on the 27th of September & destroyed the roof. They would try to determine the cause & stabilty of the home in the following week. I drove by today & the home is gone.