Architectural Drawings Toronto

[thecharioteer]

If these comments don't stir Urban Shocker back into posting again, then I'm afraid nothing will.

I wish, k10ery! He is missed. Perhaps if I find some Georgian/Neoclassical drawings?

 

[Mustapha]

"Makes one re-look at the Marani & Morris submission in the 1956 New City Hall competition in a different light:"
QUOTE: Thecharioteer.

+ 1.


Regards,
J T

+2

 

[thecharioteer]

For our Doyenne (St. Andrew's, SW corner or Church and Adelaide):

 

[wwwebster]

302 Bay Street:

Images from the December 1917 issue of “Construction.â€

http://archive.org/stream/constructionjour10macduoft#page/422/mode/2up

 

[wwwebster]

Gage Institute, 223 College Street:

Bowles Building, 149 Yonge:

Williams Building, 145 Yonge:

 

[thecharioteer]

Williams Building, 145 Yonge:

The Williams Building, built in 1912, (and demolished in 1988) was one of the first concrete buildings in Toronto (as can be seen in the section). Designed by Alfred Chapman, who went on to explore the uses of concrete in his Holy Blossom Temple on Bathurst Street, built in 1938.

The side of the Williams building, on the right:

And in 1971:

 

[wwwebster]

Images from the July 1919 issue of “Construction.â€

http://archive.org/stream/constructionjour12macduoft#page/212/mode/2up

 

[thecharioteer]

JRR is still a great looking school; original Glenholme (now Rawlinson) is long gone.

 

[k10ery]

And don't forget this one in Richmond Hill, which I suspect is the same architect and the same plans one more time:

 

[thecharioteer]

Front Street:

The Old Jail (1840-1860), south side of Front, between Berkeley and Parliament, drawn in the 1850's:

The McMaster Building 1871:

Griffiths Block 1873:

City Hotel, Front, east of Church, 1880:

Bank of Montreal, NW corner of Yonge and Front, as it appeared in 1868, painted by Owen Staples in 1912:

Baldwin House, NW corner of Front and Frederick, 1879:

Engraving reproduced in Globe & Canada farmer, January 24, 1879, p. 49, with caption: THE HOUSE IN WHICH ROBERT BALDWIN WAS BORN. / (From an original sketch by Dr. Scadding.). House later used as W.L. Mackenzie's printing office, and house of Joseph Cawthra. Date Created year approximate for 1879?
Inscribed in the plate l.r.: TORONTO ENG. CO.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Griffiths Block 1873:"
QUOTE: Thecharioteer.

Presently known as the Beardmore Building after it's longest occupant.


Regards,
J T

 

[thecharioteer]

Ritchey's Terrace, north side of Adelaide between York and Sheppard, drawn in 1900:

But built in 1855, and considered at the time (Toronto No Mean City), the finest terrace houses ever built in Toronto:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=w3Q...v=onepage&q=ritchey's terrace toronto&f=false

 

[wwwebster]

Proposed designs for the Bank of Toronto Building:

 

[wwwebster]

Images from the May 1920 issue of “Construction.â€

http://archive.org/stream/constructionjour13macduoft#page/136/mode/2up

 

[Goldie]

Proposed designs for the Bank of Toronto Building:

Some Bank of Toronto artifacts are on display at the Guild Inn, Scarborough.