Built in 1880, this lovely orange brick church was originally the site of the first Grout Foundry and Agricultural Works which burned down in 1879. The Grout Foundry was known for the invention of the horse-drawn grape hoe and the sulky plough.

A year after the fire, Charles Woolverton, an experienced farmer of missionary spirit, with only 25 members of his little Bible School on Adelaide Street, built his church. It served the Baptist community from 1881 until 1967 when it was sold to the Pentecostals. The stained glass windows were inserted as a memorial to Charles Woolverton by his son Linus.

Since the late 1980s it has served a more secular purpose as a banquet hall and upscale billiard hall called Different Strokes.

Corner of Mountain Street and Elm Street

Different Strokes:
Monday - Thursday
3:00 pm - 12:00 midnight
Friday
3:00 pm - 1:00 am
Saturday
12:00 pm - 1:00 am
Sunday
3:00 pm - 11:00pm

Grimsby Historical Society and archives located at the Carnegie Building, available for visit or phone on Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:30 am - 12 noon

Grimsby Historical Society: www.westniagara.com/ghs/map.html Different Strokes billiard hall: www.differentstrokes.ca

Different Strokes Billard Hall

Charles Woolverton Church Building
19 Elm Street
Grimsby, Ontario
L3M 1R7

Grimsby Historical Society
Grimsby Archives
Carnegie Commons Building
25 Adelaide Street
Grimsby, Ontario
L3M 1X2
Tel (905) 309-0796