#Christopher RyanChristopher Ryan: Eastview’s tangle with the El Ropo Restaurant (adding Yule to the fire)A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. The corner of Beechwood and Charlevoix wasn’t always a place to fuel your automobile. Before 1962 it was home to the El Ropo Restaurant, Eastview’s outlaw restaurant. ...
#homes & real estate #Christopher RyanChristopher Ryan: A brief history of the Elphin, Ottawa's happiest apartment buildingA weekly feature from Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. Ask anyone in Centretown if they can name one apartment building, and chances are that a majority of them will come up with The Elphin. ...
#buildings & architecture #Christopher RyanChristopher Ryan: The lonely life of the Gilbert Apartments on Lisgar StreetA weekly feature from Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. This apartment building, named The Gilbert Apartments, is located at 293 Lisgar Street and has lead a lonely life. Surrounded by surface parking lot since the 1970s, and currently boarded up, derelict, it is only a matter of time until it would face the same fate as the surrounding buildings. ...
#buildings & architecture #Christopher RyanChristopher Ryan: The beautiful brick mosaics of Ottawa's Mont St-Joseph boarding schoolEditor’s note: Here’s the first of a regular weekly feature on our blog from Christopher Ryan. I first encountered him earlier this summer on Instagam, where he has a very creative style of photography that usually eatures Ottawa buildings and landmarks . ...