Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Architect: Curry, Samuel


Biography
Notes SEE ALSO: Curry & Sparling; Curry Sproat & Rolph.


Address: 0 Front Street West
Type of Building: Legislative Buildings
Name of Building: Provincial Parliament Buildings (3rd)
Notes: Occupied the area known as Simcoe Place, a parcel of land bounded by Front, John, Simcoe and Wellington Streets.

Dates
Building completed 1829-1832
Altered 1849-inter.
Demolished 1903

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
A Street Called Front 1983 n/a 6-7
Fred Cumberland : Building the Victorian Dream 1997 n/a 185+
From Front Street to Queen's Park... 1979 n/a 39++
Lost Toronto : images of the city's past 1993 n/a 52-55
Palaces of Government (The) 1993 n/a many

End of record
Address: 36 King Street West
Type of Building: Office Buildings
Name of Building: Wood Gundy Building
Notes: Initially the John Kay and Son carpet store. "To make way for the new Scotia Plaza, the architecturally significant terra cotta facade was dismantled [in the summer of 1984] and recycled as part of a new building at 11 Adelaide St. West, also part of Scotia Plaza".

Dates
Building completed 1898
Demolished 1984

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Terra Cotta artful deceivers 1990 n/a 30-31

End of record
Address: 675 Yonge Street
Intersection: Charles Street East
Type of Building: Post Offices
Name of Building: Postal Station F

Dates
Building completed 1905-1906

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Beaux-arts Toronto 1973 n/a 8-9