Doors Open 2026
DOORS OPEN at AUCHMAR EVENTS SCHEDULE
Ribbon Cutting Saturday May 2nd 10am and Sunday May 3rd 10am
Rob Cooper, Ward 8 Councillor
Monica Ciriello, MPP, Hamilton Mountain
MUSIC IN THE MANOR
This Year’s Doors Open Theme is Music
Friends of Auchmar are proud to present the following local musicians for your listening pleasure, sponsored by Hamilton Heritage Foundation
Saturday May 2nd
1pm – 2pm Ruth Hutchinson, Violinist
2pm – 3pm Mark McNeil, Michael McAllister
(songs re Historical Hamilton)
Sunday May 3rd
12pm – 1pm Siobhan Kerr, Harpist
2 pm – 3pm Ann McKinney w/Mountain Road Band
(Fiddle, Irish Flute, Bodhran and Guitar)
Recent Blog Posts
- Heritage Hamilton Foundation – Auchmar Challenge Fund
The Auchmar Estate was retained by the City of Hamilton as a Community Restoration Project… Heritage Hamilton joined the community with an Auchmar Challenge Fund in which the Foundation will match dollar-for-dollar donations from the community for an approved restoration project at the Auchmar Estate up to $25,000.00.
Donate today by following this link –> Donate to the Auchmar Challenge Fund
After clicking the above link, please include a “message to charity” on the donations page, indicating that you are donating to the Auchmar Challenge Fund. A charitable donation tax receipt will be issued by Heritage Hamilton Foundation for all donations.
Find My Ward
Would you like to help save Auchmar and see it restored and repurposed? Please contact your councillor. You can use this City of Hamilton Ward Map to determine your ward and councillor if you do not know.
Call for Photographs
Over 21 years ago, the Hamilton Mountain Heritage Society commenced work on the book, Mountain Memories, which was well received. Part of that work was a Call for Photographs from the community for consideration in the book. The community responded passionately, sending numerous images.
The FOA is currently undertaking a photo essay project and we are calling upon the owners and custodians of private photograph collections within the community.
The intent is to feature the Auchmar Estate throughout the decades, using unseen or rarely seen photographs, which depict the various eras of ownership and use. It will highlight and include the Buchanan family, the Young family, the R.C.A.F. and the Hungarian Sisters of Social Service among others.
Your contribution would be most welcomed and greatly appreciated. All photographs and originals would be scanned and returned to the owners.
Submissions, photographic and anecdotal, may be emailed to info@friendsofauchmar.ca or mailed to the following address: Friends of Auchmar, c/o 170 East 24th Street, Hamilton, Ontario L8V 2Y3. Please include a return mailing address.
About Auchmar Manor House
In 1852, Isaac Buchanan bought 54 acres of land on the Hamilton Mountain. The property stretched from the mountain brow to Fennell Ave. He built a summer cottage which eventually became Buchanan’s Manor House & Estate.
The purpose of the Friends is to bring together those persons committed to the history, preservation, conservation, rehabilitation and continuing public use of the Auchmar Manor House, its associated buildings and cultural landscape.