Cribbing madly from John Leaning’s “Hintonburg and Mechanicsville: A Narrative History“, and the Hintonburg Community Association website we’ve come up with our first trip designed for users of the Gowalla location-based social network.
The trip is called “Hintonburg’s Built Heritage” and it has eleven check-ins including two structures designed by Francis Sullivan, the only Canadian student of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Other highlights include an art-deco tavern, a geological fault line, and something that just came over us in a strange sort of Samuel de Champlain moment — it’s a completely new landmark we made up all on our own –we call it the “Lowrey Street Lookout”.
You can see the tour here, though it is best enjoyed from the smart phone app.
Of course, as with most information in the social media age, the trip is a mutable artifact, so we’d love to see your corrections if you think we got a date or a name wrong, or hear about it if you think we’ve left out something important.
And if you’re like us and think that walking tours are a great idea just for their own sake, we’d love to see your Gowalla trip — they’re fun to do, and free.
photo by Justin Van Leeuwen