A low brick and clapboard main street of small shops, with apartments above the stores and worker housing on the side streets.
What Hintonburg looks like
runs as a continuous row of two and three storey brick buildings, shops at street level and apartment windows above them. Storefronts sit flush to the sidewalk under painted signs and striped awnings, corrugated metal cladding on some fronts and plain brick left bare on others. Cars park nose in along the curb outside the LCBO and the smaller shops near .
North of Wellington, the side streets have small two storey wood clapboard houses built close together, with narrow gaps between them and driveways running back to the garages. South of Wellington the houses switch to brick veneer over a wood frame, two storeys with porches and narrow front yards, dating from the 1910s and 1920s. has a run of these, peaked gables and brick fronts side by side.
A stone country house sits at 35 Armstrong Street, three storeys under a green mansard roof with dormer windows and a columned porch, now an office behind its original walls. runs past it to Église Saint-François d'Assise, a grey stone church with twin towers of different heights and a spire over the corner. Near the east end of Wellington Street, stands in red brick behind a white columned portico, its upper floors now apartments.
Lanes run behind the main street's north side, narrow enough for one car and lined with garages and wooden fences. , at the strip's west end, has an open air produce market in sheds and stalls.
Shot in Hintonburg
The 2021 film On the Count of Three filmed exterior scenes at Happy Goat Coffee on Laurel Street, directed by Jerrod Carmichael and starring Tiffany Haddish and Henry Winkler. The Hallmark movie Double Holiday shot at Stella Luna Gelato Café, farther west along Wellington Street West.
Toi et Moi, season 1, 2013
The French-language comedy series Toi et Moi shot its first season at the Elmdale Oyster House and Tavern, produced by Slalom Productions. The building went up in 1909 as a general store and has operated as a bar since 1934. Street View
The Junction grew up the same way, as a streetcar suburb's main street of brick storefronts with apartments above and modest housing on the side streets. Dundas Street West is built at the same low two and three storey scale as Wellington Street West. The Junction's buildings run taller in places and its intersections are wider, so a tight frame on one block holds the match better than a long lens down the street. Try searching brick storefronts with apartments above now.
Locke Street South in Hamilton, Ontario
Locke Street South is the same kind of low main street, two storeys of shops with homes just behind it, built up in the same early twentieth century wave as Wellington Street West. The storefronts sit just as close to the sidewalk, with awnings and painted signs repeating block to block. Locke Street's buildings are a touch more ornate at the cornice line and the shade trees are taller, so a frame that favours the signage over the roofline holds the match best. Try searching low main street shops now.
Logan Square's side streets off Milwaukee Avenue have the same brick two-flats behind a retail strip, built up across the same early twentieth century decades as Wellington Street West. The two neighbourhoods share the low frontage and the apartments stacked over the stores. Chicago's greystone fronts and alley garages are heavier than anything in Hintonburg, so a tight shot on the brick two-flats themselves holds the match better than a full block view. Try searching brick two-flats now.
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