Ostic Insurance — Fergus, Ontario
Office Building

	The St. Patrick St. facade with the newly completed renovations and extension to the original stone cottage.  The stone cottage to the right was later rehabilitated to a three unit apartment building.
The Ostic Insurance Building project is a unique expansion, renovation and utiliztion of several, seeminglly disparate building structures.  Focused on a one and one half storey stone cottage, the total project incorporated the family-owned business plus additional leaseable space.  New spaces and linkages finished with board and batten wood siding and gable roofs compliment and extend the historical stone vernacular.  Overall site planning brought together well articulated staff parking and entry facilities.  Parking areas are screened from the street by the building  form which serves to extend and complete the streetscape.  A visually interesting transition between the adjacent commercial core of Fergus and residential neighbourhood is therefore created.