Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Building Type: Courthouses

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.

Dates
Building completed 1851-1853
Altered 1979 - Reno

Architects: Cumberland & Ridout (firm)
Cumberland & Storm (firm)
Lett / Smith Architects (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Beaux-arts Toronto 1973 n/a 6
Fred Cumberland : Building the Victorian Dream 1997 n/a 154+
Toronto Star 1994 July A7 Mon. 4th
Toronto, Carved in Stone 1984 n/a 128

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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

Architects: Balowny William
Burke & Horwood (firm)
Cumberland & Storm (firm)
Ewart John
Hopkins Lawford & Nelson (firm)
Lane Henry
Page & Steele (firm)
Storm William
Taylor Hazell Architects (firm)
Tully Kivas
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

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Address: 0 Richmond Street West
Type of Building: Courthouses
Name of Building: Court House
Notes: Log building as in use as a court house from 1813 to 1824, when the new court house on King Street was ready.

Dates
Building completed c1813

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Romanesque Head Office of Confederation Life Assn. 1997 n/a 19