Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Architect: Connolly, Joseph

Biography
Date of Birth 1840
Date of Death 1904
Education Dublin
Notes Came to Toronto in 1873 and became the [Catholic] Diocese architect.

Address: 200 Church Street
Type of Building: Churches
Name of Building: St. Michael's Cathedral
Notes: Also listed as no.57 Bond Street. Initial Cathedral built by William Thomas, 1845-1848; tower and spire additions by Gundry & Langley, 1865-1867; dormer addions by Joseph Connolly, 1890.

Dates
Building completed 1845-1848
Altered 1867; 1890

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Architecture Canada. -- 196 May 41-42 44
Builder: an illustrated weekly magazine... 1871 Feb. 120 29 18th
Canadian Art 1961 March/A 88 18
Canadian Illustrated News 1879 Sept. 102 20 16th
Canadian Magazine of Politics… 1903 Dec. 111 22
Construction 1927 June 174 + 20
Construction 1931 April 132+ 24
Iron: Cast and wrought iron in Canada.... 1982 n/a 19 n/a n/a
Rotunda 1992 Spr. 27-33 24 7
Toronto Star 1998 April C2 21st
William Thomas, Architect 1799-1860 1996 n/a 37-42

End of record
Address: 0 Power Street
Intersection: Queen Street East
Type of Building: Hospitals
Name of Building: House of Providence
Notes: SEE ALSO: Infants Home on Sackville Street as well as the Mercy Home for Incurables at no.58 Sackville Street.

Dates
Building completed 1855-1858
Altered 1880-1882
Demolished early 1960s

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Cabbagetown In Pictures 1984 n/a 15
Cabbagetown remembered 1984 n/a 67,69
Cabbagetown: The Story of... 1998 n/a 41
Lost Toronto : images of the city's past 1993 n/a 156-
Toronto Architect Edmund Burke 1995 n/a 75-76

End of record
Address: 93 Power Street
Type of Building: Churches
Name of Building: St. Paul's Roman Catholic Ch.

Dates
Cornerstone laid 1887

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Cabbagetown In Pictures 1984 n/a 31
Cabbagetown remembered 1984 n/a 65-67
Cabbagetown: The Story of... 1998 n/a 90
Globe & Mail 1975 Feb ? 6th
Toronto Star 1974 May ? 25th
Toronto Star 1973 Nov A2 Sat 10th
Toronto Star 1998 Nov. B2 4th
Toronto, Carved in Stone 1984 n/a 15