Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Building Type: Owner-built houses

Address: 5 Austin Terrace
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Lenwil

Dates
Building completed 1913

Architects: Lennox Edward
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
City: the Toronto Star Sunday Magazine 1980 March 20-28 4 23rd
Edward James Lennox: "Builder of Toronto" 1995 n/a 87-88

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Address: 19 Avondale Road
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed 1908
Altered 1930-addn.

Architects: Lyle John
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Homes and Gardens 1933 Sept. 14-15
John M. Lyle : toward a Canadian architecture 1982 n/a 98-99
Year-Book 1933 n/a pl.60

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Address: 86 Belmont Street
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Villa Nol

Dates
Building completed 1992

Architects: Natale Nolan
Natale Scott Browne (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1992 Feb. 16-17 37 2
Canadian Architect 1989 April 10 34 4
Globe & Mail 1994 Jan. C13 Sat. 15th

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Address: 0 Bennington Heights Drive
Type of Building: Owner-built houses


Architects: Brown F. Bruce
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Home Builders' Annual 1933 n/a 104

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Address: 75 Bridle Path
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: John C. Parkin House

Dates
Building completed 1954
Altered 1961-addn.

Architects: Parkin John C.
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1957 April 41-52
Canadian Interiors 1978 May 18-19 15 5
City & Country Home 1986 Winter 72-83 5 8
Globe & Mail 2001 May R3 Wed. 2nd
Globe & Mail 2001 May R3 Wed 2nd
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1959 Feb. 47 36 2
Toronto 1989 Sept. 38++ 4 6

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Address: 308 Carlton Street
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed 1890

Architects: Brick Benjamin
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Cabbagetown remembered 1984 n/a 106
Cabbagetown: The Story of... 1998 n/a 46,79

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Address: 314 Carlton Street
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed 1875

Architects: Brick Benjamin
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Cabbagetown remembered 1984 n/a 106-7
Cabbagetown: The Story of... 1998 n/a 79

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Address: 322 Church Street
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Oakham House
Notes: Has also been listed as #333 Church Street, and more recently as #63 Gould Street.

Dates
Building completed 1848

Architects: Thomas William
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Architecture Canada. -- 1967 May 42 44
Architecture Canada. -- 1971 Sept 5 48 27th
Gothic Revival in Canadian Architecture 1980 n/a 98-99 n/a n/a
Ontario Association of Architects: 1890-1950 1950 n/a upgd
Toronto Star 1976 Feb. ? 7th
Toronto Star 2000 Aug. N8 Sat. 26th
Toronto, 100 years of grandeur 1978 n/a 116+
Toronto, Carved in Stone 1984 n/a 125
William Thomas, Architect 1799-1860 1996 n/a 64-67

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Address: 1414 Davenport Road
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Notes: Built by Robert James Dodds.

Dates
Building completed 1912

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
TRAC : newsletter of the Toronto Region Arch.... 1991 May 3

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Address: 125 Evelyn Avenue
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed 1889

Architects: Pipher Abraham
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Leader and Recorder 2001 Winter 8

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Address: 11 Highland Avenue
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Wilkes Residence

Dates
Building completed mid 1920s

Architects: Wilkes F. Hilton
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Year-Book 1933 n/a pl.24

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Address: 69 Hogarth Avenue
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Owen Staples House

Dates
Building completed 1904

Architects: Jefferys C.T.
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Historical Walking Tour of the Danforth 1992 n/a 14-15
Toronto Life 1998 march 94-97 32 3

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Address: 326 Howland Avenue
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Notes: Actual street address is 326 1/2 Howland Avenue. Owner is architect Mary Jane Finlayson.

Dates
Building completed c1910
Altered c1996

Architects: Lang Sterling Finlayson (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1997 Feb. 42 2
Globe & Mail 1997 April C15 Sat. 23rd
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1996 Winter 9 4 3
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1997 Summer 20 5 2

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Address: 11 Jersey Street
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed c1998

Architects: Burka Astra
Kopsa Michael
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
AZURE 1999 Mar/Apr 24
Toronto Star 1999 Jan. M3 Sat. 30th

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Address: 0 Lytton Boulevard
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed c1989-1990

Architects: Ott Carlos
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Toronto Life 1995 August 62-65

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Address: 138 MacPherson Avenue
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Notes: Owner: architect Tye Farrow.


Architects: Dunlop Farrow Inc. (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1996 Winter 9 4 3
Toronto Life Fashion 1998 Dec/Jan 128+ 31 18

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Address: 20 Madison Avenue
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Madison Manor
Notes: Built by carpenter George Hunter in 1891. Renovated as Bed & Breakfast c2000.

Dates
Building completed 1891

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Annex Gleaner 2000 May 4

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Address: 16 May Tree Road
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Tampold Residence

Dates
Building completed 1986

Architects: Tampold Wells Architects (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Toronto : le nouveau Monde 1987 n/a 56-57

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Address: 15 Poplar Plains Crescent
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Jerome Markson House


Architects: Markson Jerome
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Jerome Markson Architects 1981 n/a 97
Ontario Homes and Living 1963 Oct. 20-22 2 9

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Address: 1024 Queen Street West
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed c1992

Architects: Kurtin Kathleen
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Architect's Dwelling : a self portrait 1995 n/a unpgd
Canadian Architect 1993 June 22-23
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1994 Fall/W 7 2 4

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Address: 21 Rosemary Lane
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Page Residence
Notes: Home of Forsey Page.


Architects: Forsey Page & Steele (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Year-Book 1933 n/a pl.34

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Address: 77 Roxborough Drive
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Roseland
Notes: Initially the street address was no.265 Roxborough Street East. Alfred D. Chapman lived there with his family until 1927, when he moved to no.93 Roxborough Drive.

Dates
Building completed 1913

Architects: Chapman & McGiffin (firm)
Designers: Krelstein, Sidney
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Alfred Chapman : the man and his work 1978 n/a 14
Toronto Life Homes 1983 Fall H47-9

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Address: 33 St. George Street
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Pendarves
Notes: Originally the home of architect Frederick W. Cumberland. Remodelled in 1883 by his former partner, William G. Storm. Currently functions as the University of Toronto's International Student Centre.

Dates
Building completed 1857-1860
Altered 1883

Architects: Cumberland Frederic
Storm William
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Fred Cumberland : Building the Victorian Dream 1997 n/a 192+
Ontario Association of Architects: 1890-1950 1950 n/a unpgd
Toronto Star 1978 Aug ? 12th
Toronto, 100 years of grandeur 1978 n/a 155+
William Thomas, Architect 1799-1860 1996 n/a 100

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Address: 10 Stanley Terrace
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Design conceived 1994
Building completed c1995

Architects: Kohn Martin
Shnier John
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Architect's Dwelling : a self portrait 1995 n/a unpgd
Canadian Architect 1994 Dec. 28-29

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Address: 37 Summerhill Avenue
Type of Building: Owner-built houses


Architects: Cowan H. Gardiner
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Ontario Homes and Living 1963 Sept. 13-16 2 8

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Address: 81 Waverley Road
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Inglenook

Dates
Building completed c1900

Architects: Edwards Robert J.
Wagner Charles
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Historical Walking Tour of Kew Beach 1995 n/a 24-25

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Address: 14 Weybourne Crescent
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Notes: Originally the Harold J. Smith house.

Dates
Building completed 1928

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Historical Walking Tour of Lawrence Park 1994 n/a 36

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Address: 5 Wychwood Park
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed 1906

Architects: Smith Eden
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Joy of Wychwood : an exhibition of art... 1988 n/a 160-
Toronto Star 2001 Dec C2 Sat 29th

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Address: 6 Wychwood Park
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Wychwood
Notes: Originally the home of Marmaduke Matthews.

Dates
Building completed 1874

Architects: Matthews Marmaduke
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Estates of Old Toronto 1997 n/a 84-85
Joy of Wychwood : an exhibition of art... 1988 n/a 100+
Toronto, 100 years of grandeur 1978 n/a 210+

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Address: 81 Wychwood Park
Type of Building: Owner-built houses
Name of Building: Upland Cottage

Dates
Building completed 1906

Architects: Reid George
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Journal of Garden History 1983 n/a 193++ 3 3
Joy of Wychwood : an exhibition of art... 1988 n/a var.

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Address: 0 York Mills Area
Type of Building: Owner-built houses

Dates
Building completed mid 1930s?

Architects: Allward Hugh
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Homes and Gardens 1936 Oct/Nov 26-27