Pop-up photo art created by Lesley Walker Fitzpatrick tells a hotel story. Her photos honour the history and heritage of the Dominion House Bar & Grill. The public house was built in Stratford, Ontario, in 1865. Lesley took her 280 photographs in the last week of the establishment’s operation. The pop-up photo art hangs on a chain link fence that surrounds the vacant lot where the hotel once stood.

The exhibit title for photos taken during the last week of the hotel’s operation

The Dominion House Bar & Grill as she was

Dominion House Bar & Grill on the south side of the tracks

Lesley Walker Fitzpatrick

Photos lit up by the setting sun
The photos, crisp and clear in the setting sunlight of a late December day, depict the love and loyalty of the hotel patrons and staff.

Faces of patrons

The hotel kitchen

The building is gone

Lesley making sure her gift of love does not disappear with the wind
Each day, Lesley battles the weather to tighten the fasteners on her photos. The string of photographs recreates the camaraderie and community of the hotel.

So good to bump into Lesley along the fence
Neighbours, hotel patrons, passersby, and pop-up art appreciators stop to take in the exhibit.
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