St. Marys (Ontario)

St. Marys contains many 19th-century buildings many built with locally quarried limestone. The Municipal Heritage Committee helps in preserving the historic stone buildings and publishes a useful brochure online, with interesting facts about those in the downtown area. Notable buildings include:

The opera house is a stone building built in 1880 and sports two castle-like towers. It is today used for apartments.

The spired municipal Town Hall was built in 1891, and is still used as such today.

The stone building was built in 1904 using a $10,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.

The Hall of Fame moved to St. Marys from Toronto in 1994 and opened in 1998. It is dedicated to preserving Canada's baseball heritage. Since opening, 75 members (46 players, 23 builders, 2 honorary, 4 honorary teams) have been inducted. It includes professional ballplayers, amateurs, builders, and honorary members who have helped popularize the sport in Canada. The facility also includes a baseball field designed by landscape architect Art Lierman of London, Ontario. There are thousands of artifacts on display in the museum "including Fergie Jenkins and Larry Walker memorabilia, artifacts from Canada's two major league franchises, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Montreal Expos, a Babe Ruth collection, a large display on all the current MLB Canadians and a tribute to the Canadian women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.".

This stone station, a National Historic Site, is the only original Grand Trunk station in Southwestern Ontario. Not serving any railway function, the building is occupied by Broken Rail Brewing.

This museum illustrates the history of St. Marys.

A 3.2-km-long paved trail, converted from an abandoned railway. The railway bridge over the Thames River is beautiful. The trail leads to the St. Marys Junction Railway Station. In 2012, the Re-Purposing of the Sarnia Bridge to part of the Grand Trunk Trail was inducted to the North America Railway Hall of Fame.