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Continued from page 43 edition of the Port Perry Star. The local paper announced that the S.E. Sinclair property had been selected as the site for the building and “$5,000 have been set aside in supplementary estimates for the work”. The site was an undeveloped piece of prop- erty in the centre of town, vacant since the fire of 1884. The property had become an eyesore for the town, being enclosed by an aging wood fence. Quite a contrast to the attractive brick buildings which lined the street. News of the post office being building on the site was warmly received, but it wasn’t until February 15, 1911 that it was announced that “a sketch in colour of front elevations of the building” had arrived. The sketch showed a two-storey brick build- ing with a substantial stone foundation and a clock tower over 50’ high on the west side. “This tower has provision made in it for a clock and such an addition to the very credit- able building proposed would be most accept- able,” wrote the Port Perry Star editor. The plan also revealed there were to be two picture taken of Queen Street, about 1911, shows the empty entrances and the upper storey would contain ‘since lot with a pile of granite sores not long before construction got apartments for the caretaker. underway on the new Port Perry po: The foundation of the post office was completed when the corner stone, featuring a simple maple leaf carved into the stone (right), was laid in the north west comer of the building. 44 FOCUS - DECEMBER 2013