20161226. The Milburn building on Colborne Street – designed by the “master practitioner” of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, E.J. Lennox (architect of Casa Loma and Old City Hall).
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20161212. Once painted greyish blue, this revived picturesque 1888 Queen Anne house shows its original red brick. 110 Park Road, Rosedale.
20161208. The nearly finished SQ Condominiums in #Toronto’s redeveloping Alexandra Park, contrast strongly but fittingly with the turn of the century mid-rise commercial buildings of Spadina Avenue.
20161128. The rich and varied architectural history of Toronto’s Jarvis Street.
The three row houses to the left (1862) were originally part of a Georgian eight-house row. The Second Empire features – mansard roofs and bowed bays – were added about 20 years later. The double house to the right (1874) is an example of Italiante architecture with round-headed windows and doors and bracketed cornices. Thanks to Patricia McHugh’s 2nd edition of Toronto Architecture: A City Guide.
20161123. Although a significant part of Toronto’s cultural heritage landscape, Honest Ed’s is by no means aesthetically pleasing.
20161122. Some interesting signs at Honest Ed’s (closing at the end of the year) include “LADIES and SNACK BAR” and “Welcome to Yesterday” from the old Memory Lane Books. Signs are also on sale, perhaps an Ed Mirvish cut-out too.
20161121. Three English Cottage Style structures, each with seven houses of varying plans, make up Rosedale’s Ancroft Place, a unique Garden City 21-unit housing complex (1927, Shepard & Calvin).
20161113. Originally the Harris Henry Fudger house (1898), this is one of the many incredible houses in Rosedale.
20161111. The R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant Service Building is impressive even in the rear view.
20161108. The early 20th-century mid-rise commercial and industrial buildings of the Fashion District between King and Wellington Streets.
20161106. The interesting and varied historic architecture of Spadina Avenue. From left to right: WJ Gage building, Darling Building, Tower Building, Reading Building, Fashion Building and The Morgan Condominiums (built 2002).
20161019. Looking up at the wonderful massing at Toronto’s Berkeley Castle (1868).
20161010. A 1931 Art Deco garage entrance to drive through at the Mayfair Mansions in South Hill, Toronto.
20161005. From left to right, the three buildings of the wonderful Art Deco R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant are the Pumping Station, Service Building and Filtration Building.
20161004. Allstream Centre symmetry.
20161002. BMO Field’s west entrance is all that remains of the modernist Canada Sports Hall of Fame (1961-2005).
20160821. The 1931 Art Deco Horse Palace at Exhibition Place.
20160524. Inside the kilns where bricks were fired at Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works.
20160404. East elevation of Toronto’s once Consumers Gas Co. Purifying House No. 2 and now the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera Theatre.
Architects Strictland and Symens, 1888, Renaissance Revival.
The building was designed in the style of an early Christian basilica with a clerestory roof. It may have been built as a self-supporting structure and simply placed on top of the building so that any explosion would raise it without destroying the walls (from the COC’s website).
20160328. Remembering the Art Deco Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto) before demolition.
Sparling, Morton and Forbes, c.1928.
20160317. Behind a Beaux Arts bank building (c.1907).
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.
20160311. The original Palace Street School section (1858) of what became Toronto’s Cherry St Hotel and Canary Diner.
The Canary District (and former PAN AM Athlete’s Village) is named after the diner. This is the oldest multi-room school house in Toronto.
20160307. The 1936 CNE Bandshell, Toronto’s Art Deco Hollywood Bowl.
20160305. Rack House D, Building 42 at the Gooderham and Worts Distillery, a heritage-designated National Historic Site in Toronto.
This is a 6-storey masonry warehouse building that was used to store barrels of alcohol. Designed by David Roberts Jr and constructed between 1842-1851, it was built where the residence of James Gooderham Worts once stood. Archaeological evidence of this residence may survive underneath the building. Thanks goes to a Heritage Impact Assessment report by ERA Architects for the above information.