Codes Mill

This is a Watercolor Painting done in a lively, bright colored geometrical patterned abstract using QOR Watercolor Paints.  QOR Watercolor has vibrant, intense colors that stay brilliant with dilution and even after they dry.  They provide subtlety, transparency and flow of great watercolor with colors that have as much vibrancy as the best acrylic or oil paint.

Painted on Arches Aquarelle Paper.  You can buy direct 8 x10 Art Print with white 11 x 14 Mat.  Or Download a 8 x 10 PDF Print or a 11 x 14 Print that you could print onto anything from Paper to Canvas, linens such as pillows, duvets, celebrate your event with personalized printed bags, napkins, tablecloths, the options are endless!!  Impress everyone!!

Codes Mill Perth Ontario Heritage Site

Information copied from Code”s Mill as well as History of Code’s Mill

Code’s Mill located in the center of Perth, at 53 Herriott Street on the edge of Stewart Park.  This building is one of Perth’s most significant landmarks.

Designated a historic site in 1990 it represents 150 years of manufacturing activity.

A brief history

Code’s Mill is a collage of five different buildings dating from 1842.  The first industrial process on the site was operated by the Kilpatrick family in 1842.  Over time the building complex evolved and became a collage of five different buildings constructed between 1842 and 1932.  The three-story portion facing onto Herriott Street is the most prominent.

Built in 1903, this building is composed of distinctive Hughes limestone, a lavender tinted stone unique to Perth.  Described at the time as the most handsome building in Eastern Ontario.

In 1883, Mr. T.A. Code established Codes Custom Wool Mill.  Codes Custom Wood Mill had a large range of processes that included:  carding, spinning, fulling, shearing, pressing, and coloring of yarns.  In 1896 the name was changed to the Tay Knitting Mill.  Tay Knitting Mill produced yarn, hosiery, socks, gloves, sporting-goods, sweaters, and mitts.  Another change came in 1899, when a felt-making process was introduced and the mill was renamed Code Felt.

When Code Felt closed in 1998, John and Rhonda Steward began a major restoration and introduced new uses creating this landmark.  It is now home to many fine shops and Fiddlehead’s restaurant.