Address: 57 Adelaide Street East Type of Building: Courthouses Name of Building: York County Courthouse Notes: Central portion of the courthouse is no.57 Adelaide Street West. The flanking west and east administrative wings occupied street nos. 55 and 65 repesctively. The west wing was altered by E.J. Lennox c1890-95 for the Consumers Gas Company of Canada, who purchased it and connected it to their premises on Toronto Street.
Address: 0 Bathurst Street Intersection: Dundas Street West Type of Building: Houses Name of Building: Hall (The) Notes: Home of Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski.
Address: 75 Church Street Intersection: Adelaide Street East Type of Building: High Schools Name of Building: Mechanics Institute Notes: Had a variety of uses. Housed the Post Office + the Crown Lands departments from 1855-1869. The building was altered in 1877 by H.B. Gordon, and converted by Mark Hall in 1883 for use as Toronto's main public library. It opened in March 1884 and was used until the Reference Library was opened at 214 College Street in 1906. Until 1927-28, the library maintained a branch in the building. In 1930, it was re-opened as the Employement Services of Canada, and the following year it was taken over by the Department of Public Welfare, which remained there until 1948-1949, when it was demolished and replaced by a service station parking lot.
Address: 0 Davenport Road Intersection: Bathurst Street Type of Building: Houses Name of Building: William Hume Blake House
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.
Address: 0 Front Street West Intersection: Windsor Street Type of Building: Town Houses Name of Building: J. Lukin Robinson Town Hss.
Address: 0 Gould Street Intersection: Church Street Type of Building: High Schools Name of Building: Normal and Model Schools Notes: Original location was known as St. James Square, a block bounded by Gould, Victoria, Gerrard and Church. It was one of downtown Toronto's few planned open spaces. The Normal School (Cumberland & Ridout 1850-1852) was the building devoted to teacher training and was the central part of the site. Behind that were two bilaterally symmetrical Model (Grammar) Schools (Cumberland & Storm 1857-1858) (one for girls, one for boys), that were linked to the Normal School by a corridor leading from the auditorium. The Normal School was demolished in 1963 (except for part of the main portico). The Model Grammar School, which opened in 1858, closed only five years later, and it is not known exactly when it was demolished. SEE: Geoffrey Simmins' "Fred Cumberland...", 1997.
Address: 0 Hart House Circle Type of Building: Cottages Name of Building: Royal Magnetical Observatory - Cottages Notes: One single and one double cottage served as the residences for the staff of the Royal Magnetical Observatory. SEE ALSO: Director's House...
Address: 0 Hart House Circle Type of Building: Houses Name of Building: Royal Magnetical Observatory - Director's House
Address: 14 Hart House Circle Type of Building: Observatories Name of Building: Royal Magnetical Observatory Notes: Also known as the Royal Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory and then known as the Stewart Observatory. in 1908 the building was re-erected on a site south of Hart House and east of University College (originally it stood southeast of the present-day Convocation Hall). It is now used as the Students' Administrative Council Building.
Address: 9 King Street East Type of Building: Book Stores Name of Building: Wesleyan Methodist Bookst
Address: 417 King Street East Type of Building: Parsonages Name of Building: Little Trinity Church Parson
Address: 0 King Street West Type of Building: Private Schools Name of Building: Upper Canada College Notes: The original college, now demolished, was built 1829-1831. The occupation of the present school (north of St. Clair Avenue on Avenue Road) dates from 1891.
Address: 15 King's College Circle Type of Building: Colleges Name of Building: University College
Address: 635 Parliament Street Type of Building: Churches Name of Building: St. James-the-Less Chapel
Address: 0 Pembroke Street Type of Building: Office Buildings Name of Building: Canadian Institute Building
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)
Address: 321 Queen Street West Intersection: Spadina Avenue Type of Building: Churches Name of Building: Wesleyan Church
Address: 495 Sherbourne Street Type of Building: Houses Name of Building: Sherborne Villa
Address: 0 Simcoe Street Type of Building: Official Residences Name of Building: Government House no.1 Notes: Also known as Elmsley House. Destroyed by fire in 1862 and replaced by another building (Government House no.2) that was later demolished.
Address: 18 Toronto Street Type of Building: Clubhouses Name of Building: Masonic Hall Notes: Cumberland & Storm may have designed the furniture. Purchased by the Canada Permanent Mortgage company in 1876. By 1901 the space was converted to offices. In 1930, the building was taken over by the Excelsior Life Company, was demolished in 1964-1965 and replaced by an office tower.
Address: 0 Wellington Place Intersection: Wellington Street West Type of Building: Houses Name of Building: Lyndhurst Notes: Initially the home of Robert Sympson Jameson and his wife Anna. Sold to Frederick Widder in 1844, who greatly enlarged it. In the late 1860s, it became the mother house of Loretto Abbey and a "School for Young Ladies". It was purchased by the Society of Jesus, a seminary, in 1930. In 1959 the property wad bought by the Telegram Publishing Company, and the house was destroyed in 1961.
Address: 17 Wellington Street West Type of Building: Office Buildings Name of Building: Edinburgh Life Assurance Co.
Address: 0 Yonge Street Type of Building: Houses Name of Building: Chestnut Park (house) Notes: Home of David Lewis MacPherson. Situated on the east side of Yonge Street between Roxborough St. and Rowan Avenue.
Address: 36 Yonge Street Type of Building: Warehouses
