Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Building Type: City Blocks

Address: 0 Bay Street
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Bay Street


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Bright Lights, Big City 1991 n/a 34-35
Metropolitan Mutations 1989 n/a 43-+

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Address: 0 Bellevue Avenue
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Bellevue Avenue


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Bellevue avenue: an architectural and social study 1993 n/a all

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Address: 0 Bond Street
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Bond Street


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Toronto Star 1976 Feb. ? 7th
Toronto Star 1998 April B2 22nd

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Address: 0 Dundas Street East
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Dundas Square


Architects: Brown and Storey Archts. (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1999 Dec. 28-29 44 12
Canadian Architect 1999 Jan. 7 44 1
Eye Weekly 1999 Jan. 6 14th
Globe & Mail 1998 Nov. A2 Thur 19th
Globe & Mail 2001 May A15 Mon 21st
Globe & Mail 1999 March ? 23rd
Globe & Mail 1998 Oct. A13 6th
Globe & Mail 1999 Jan. C17 Sat. 2nd
NOW 2001 Dec. 29 13th
National Post 1998 Dec.1 B2 2nd
National Post 2001 May A23 Tues 22nd
National Post 2001 Nov. A3 28th
Toronto Life 1999 Jan. 114 33
Toronto Star 2002 Mar. B3 Thur 28th
Toronto Star 2000 Jan. B2 25th
Toronto Star 2002 July B3 Mon 1st
Toronto Star 2000 Dec. C1 Wed. 20th
Toronto Star 2002 jan. B1 11th
Toronto Star 2001 Aug. B4 Thur 23rd
Toronto Star 1998 Dec. B1,B4 Wed. 2nd
Toronto Star 1998 Dec. B5 7th
Toronto Star 1998 Dec. F5,F7 Tues 1st
Toronto Star 1998 Aug. C1,C5 Wed 5th
Toronto Star 2002 Mar. C5 Mon 18th
Toronto Star 1998 Sept. M3 Sat. 12th
Toronto Star 1998 Dec. K3 Sat. 5th
Toronto Star 1998 Dec. L4 26th
Toronto Star 1999 June B1 7th

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Address: 87 King Street East
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Victoria Row
Notes: A row of shops occupying nos. 87-97 King Street East.Only no. 87 is still extant.

Dates
Building completed 1842
Altered c1866

Architects: Howard John
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Lost Toronto : images of the city's past 1993 n/a 95-96

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Address: 150 King Street East
Type of Building: City Blocks
Notes: Multi-unit commercial block. Sometime referred to as the Burke-Murchison Block. Originally built as shops with residential flats and offices above. Dates vary in some sources. Nos. 150-154 were built after the Great Fire of 1849, since they observe a resultant construction safety bylaw.

Dates
Building completed c1833

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1986 April 4
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1987 Jan. 6

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Address: 0 King Street West
Type of Building: City Blocks
Notes: Streetscape, 1880


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Looking at Architecture in Canada 1958 n/a 160

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Address: 639 Queen Street East
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Smith's Block
Notes: 8-unit commercial block developed by John smith occupied nos.639-655 Queen Street East.

Dates
Building completed 1889-1890

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1995 Sum. 4-5

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Address: 318 Queen Street West
Type of Building: City Blocks
Notes: Nos. 318-320 built in 1882. Nos. 322-324 built in 1884-1885.

Dates
Building completed 1882,1884

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1995 Sum. 6

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Address: 495 Queen Street West
Type of Building: City Blocks
Notes: Originally a 7-unit commercial block occupying nos. 495-505 Queen Street West. First owned by the Land Security Co.

Dates
Building completed 1889-1890

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1995 Sum. 7-8

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Address: 1142 Queen Street West
Type of Building: City Blocks
Notes: 4-unit commercial block originally developed by Philip Peppiatt.

Dates
Building completed 1881-1882

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1995 Sum 9

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Address: 1482 Queen Street West
Type of Building: City Blocks
Notes: Initially a 6-unit commercial block owned by James G. Macdonell.

Dates
Building completed 1892

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1995 Sum. 10-11

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Address: 0 Rusholme Road
Type of Building: City Blocks


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Study of Rusholme Road 1991 n/a

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Address: 0 Spadina Avenue
Type of Building: City Blocks


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Globe & Mail 1997 July A1 Wed. 2nd

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Address: 0 St. George Street
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: St. George Street

Dates
Building completed 1996/97

Architects: Brown and Storey Archts. (firm)
Garwood-Jones Van Nostrand Hanson
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Annex Gleaner 2001 Nov. 22
Canadian Architect 1996 April 10-11 41 4
Canadian Architect 1998 April 30-31 43 4

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Address: 0 University Avenue
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Federal Avenue
Notes: Proposed scheme to create a grand boulevard in the Beaux-arts tradition. It was envisioned as a wide thoroughfare between Bay and York Streets, leading from Union Station to Queen's Park. SEE ALSO: University Avenue under a "Building Name" search.

Dates
Design conceived 1911

Architects: Lyle John
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Beaux-arts Toronto 1973 n/a 22-23
John M. Lyle : toward a Canadian architecture 1982 n/a 83-84
Metropolitan Toronto Business Journal 1988 May 44
Toronto Architect Edmund Burke 1995 n/a 163
Toronto Life 2000 Jan. 75+ 34 1
Toronto Star 1971 Dec. ? 10th

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Address: 0 Waterfront Area
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: CityPlace
Notes: A proposed development comprising over 20 residential towers, an elementary school, parks, bike path, jogging trails, etc. The first tower is to be designed by Page + Steele Architects. First of the series of public artworks (the willow leaf sculpture) installed is called Orenda.


Architects: HOK / Urbana Architects (firm)
Page + Steele Inc. Archts & Planrs
Designers: Moore, Marlene
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1999 Aug. 7 44 8
National Monthly 2001 Sept N1 Sat 15th
National Post 2002 Jan PH2 Sat 26th
National Post 2001 Sept. PH? Sat. 22nd
National Post 2001 Oct. PH1 sat. 20th
Toronto Star 2000 Sept. P1 Sat. 23rd
Toronto Star 2002 Jan P2 Sat 26th
Toronto Star 2001 May P1,P7 Sat 12th

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Address: 664 Yonge Street
Type of Building: City Blocks
Name of Building: Scottish Ont & Manitoba Land
Notes: A row of stores occupying street nos. 664-682 Yonge Street, designed by E.J. Lennox for the Scottish Ontario & Manitoba Land Company.

Dates
Building completed 1883

Architects: Lennox Edward
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Edward James Lennox: "Builder of Toronto" 1995 n/a 6,16