Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Architect: Lane, Henry


Biography
Date of Birth c1817-1818
Notes Emigrated to Canada in c.1840, and returned there in 1847. SEE: Henry Bowyer Lane by Stephen Otto and Marion MacRae [S.l. : s.n.] c1980? Call no.720.924 L11 O76


Address: 103 Front Street East
Intersection: Jarvis Street
Type of Building: City Halls
Name of Building: City Hall - 2nd
Notes: Now known as the South St. Lawrence Market / Market Gallery and occupies no. 91 Front Street East. Built 1844-1845 by Henry Bower Lane. Rebuilt in 1851 by William Thomas (with John. G. Howard) to include shops in the wings. Stewart & Strickland rebuilt the shops in the east wing in 1876. The building was turned into a much larger market (by architect John Wilson Sidall) c1901, since the Third City Hall was completed at 60 Queen Street West in 1898.

Dates
Building completed 1844-1845
Altered 1851; 1904
Restored 1975-1977

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Globe & Mail 1986 July A8 11th
Globe & Mail 1972 Nov. ? 9th
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1956 July 271 33 7
Lost Toronto : images of the city's past 1993 n/a 66-68
Toronto Telegram 1965 Nov. ? 12th
William Thomas, Architect 1799-1860 1996 n/a 88

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Address: 0 Homewood Avenue
Type of Building: Houses
Name of Building: Home Wood
Notes: Originally the home of George William Allan (1822-1901), Benjamin Homer Dixion (who changed the spelling to Homewood) and later Frederic Nicholls. It became the private 72-bed Wellesley Hospital in 1912. Demolished in 1964 to make room for the Wellesley Hospital expansion.

Dates
Building completed 1846-1847
Demolished 1964

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Estates of Old Toronto 1997 n/a 58-59
Toronto, 100 years of grandeur 1978 n/a 108+

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Address: 203 John Street
Intersection: Stephanie Street
Type of Building: Churches
Name of Building: St. George the Martyr


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
William Thomas, Architect 1799-1860 1996 n/a 46

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Address: 425 King Street East
Type of Building: Churches
Name of Building: Little Trinity Church

Dates
Building completed 1843
Restored 1961

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Cabbagetown remembered 1984 n/a 65
Cabbagetown: The Story of... 1998 n/a 32
Henry Bowyer Lane 1980 n/a 1-4
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1986 Aug. ?
William Thomas, Architect 1799-1860 1996 n/a 33

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Address: 0 Lawton Boulevard
Type of Building: Houses
Name of Building: Lawton Park
Notes: Originaly built for Colonel Arthur Carthew. Sold to John Fisken in 1848. In 104 it was sold to John Palmer, who named it Huntly Lodge.

Dates
Building completed c1848
Altered c1904
Demolished 1935

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Historical Walking Tour of Deer Park 1996 n/a 51

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Address: 132 Queen Street West
Type of Building: Courthouses
Name of Building: Osgoode Hall
Notes: Address sometimes given as # 116-138 Queen Street W.. Built as the headquarters of the Law Society of Upper Canada and has had a lengthy building history. The following is a summary taken from Patrica McHugh's TORONTO ARCHITECTURE : A CITY GUIDE (1985): EAST WING - John Ewart (1829-1832); altered by Henry Bower Lane (1844). Law school addition by William G. Storm (1880, 1890). Interior altered by Burke & Horwood (1899); and altered again by Vaux and Bryan Chadwick (1925); rear additions (1937, 1958). CENTRE BLOCK by Henry Bower Lane (1844); rebuilt by Cumberland & Storm (1856-1861); rear additions (1910, 1923). WEST WING by Henry Bower Lane (1844); additions by Kivas Tully (1883); interioir altered by Burke & Horwood (1897); rear addition (1910); renovated and rear addition by Page & Steele (1972-1973). FENCE AND GATES by William G. Storm (1866)

Dates
Foundation started 1829

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Bulletin / Soc. for the Study of Arch. in Canada 1985 Dec. 14-18 10 4
Bulletin / Soc. for the Study of Arch. in Canada 1988 Dec. 9-16 13 4
Canadian Interiors 1982 April 35 19 4
City: the Toronto Star Sunday Magazine 1980 March 14-19 4 23rd
Early Buildings of Ontario 1938 n/a 17
Fred Cumberland : Building the Victorian Dream 1997 n/a 160+
Globe & Mail 2002 May A20 Tues 21st
Iron: Cast and wrought iron in Canada.... 1982 n/a 70-71
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1959 July 250-2 36 7
Looking at Architecture in Canada 1958 n/a 76
Palladian Style in Canadian Architecture 1984 n/a 92
Romanesque Head Office of Confederation Life Assn. 1997 n/a 9
Toronto Architect Edmund Burke 1995 n/a 80-82
Toronto, Carved in Stone 1984 n/a 14