Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Building Name: Lyndhurst

Address: 153 Lyndhurst Avenue
Type of Building: Houses
Name of Building: Lyndhurst Lodge
Notes: Initailly built for Ralph Connable. Ernest Hemingway lived there in the 1920s/30s as a guest and tutor to Arthur Connable. When the Connable family moved out of the home, it was utilized as a hospice for paraplegic patients. In the 1980s, the house was divided into three homes.

Dates
Building completed 1912
Altered 1980s

Architects: Wickson & Gregg (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
National Post 2001 Sept D5 22nd
Toronto Star 2001 Oct N12 Sat 13th

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Address: 0 Wellington Place
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.

Dates
Building completed 1857-reno
Demolished 1961

Architects: Cumberland & Storm (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Fred Cumberland : Building the Victorian Dream 1997 n/a 191+