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Historicist: Toronto Street The evolution of the city's once most elegant streetscape. http://torontoist.com/2015/10/historicist-toronto-street/

Mustapha, I hope you have read the book 'The Ward' if not, you should. I'll lend you my copy. https://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/ward

Because the top floor wall isn't a wall it's a roof?;) Did the owners of the Gooderham building have any say in where the windows went?

"Baseball - girls match at Sunnyside - July 19, 1924"

Also, the hydro towers makes me think it's Sunnyside Here they are in 1914 - pre landfill

My mom and her mom used to go to girls' baseball games at Sunnyside, but it would have been in the 1930s or early 40s.

Wikipedia says "It was taped in a double suite at the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto.[citation needed]"!

'Our' house, as in the one we were discussing. Yes, I think the Greenans were the builders and owners of the house currently known as 6 Geraldine Court.

Del Zotto didn`t build the house - they developed Geraldine Court several years after the house was built.

Yes, you're right - southwest corner!

p.s. Goldie, the building on the southwest [edit - was southeast] corner of Queen and Yonge in the 1890 photo is 178 Yonge - which was the original (Toronto) Eaton's store. However, the awning in the photo appears to say 'Simpson'.

Simpson's 1895 After the fire, 1895 1939

The city directory definitely shows Eatons on Queen Street. But here is Simpson's - next to the church.

Unfortunately, all the photographers preferred the view of the north side of the street. 1890:

I don't think it's the same corner, unless sewers and 'maintenance access covers'/manholes have been changed. The corner of Kensington and St Andrew has a rectangular-built-into-the-curb sewer on the Kensington side, with a round manhole cover next to the hydro pole on the St Andrew St side in...

Westminster Church House No. 57 Bloor Street East Westminster Church was on the south side of Bloor across from Park Road. There was another church called Central Methodist (later Peoples Church) that was on the northwest corner of Bloor and Park. You can see them both here during the...

Riverside is actually one that the real estate agents did not make up. Or if they did, they did it in 1884: http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=569b757ae6b31410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

I believe you are referring to the famous Warwick Hotel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Hotel_%28Toronto%29 There are photos of it here https://www.flickr.com/photos/32175940@N06/sets/72157621991327415/ Here's what the Warwick Hotel looked like in 1916:

It was a private woman's club called - 21 McGill.