Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

Thank you Sire!

YOU WILL BE MISSED!

Regards,
J T

 

[thecharioteer]

From Canadian Architect and Builder 1900:

Goad's 1910:

From the Toronto Archives:

Road to St. Patrick Street (Dundas) behind the Grange:

 

[thecharioteer]

A few more:

 

[wwwebster]

Gooderham Residence, Mill Street (courtesy virtualmuseum.ca):

Worts Residence, Mill Street (courtesy virtualmuseum.ca):

1880 Goad’s Plan:

http://www.distilleryheritage.com/mappdfs/1880.pdf

1880 Directory, Mill Street:

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[thecharioteer]

Very interesting post, wwwebster. Unlike The Grange or Hazelburn or any of the Park Lot Family Compact estates, the Gooderham Residence on Mill Street owes more to the British tradition of the "house on the hill" owned by the factory or mill owner, in which the owner probably knew all the workers by name and spent his entire day in the factory.

It was, of course, the next generation that decamped for the greener (and cleaner) pastures of Jarvis and St. George Streets.

 

[thecharioteer]

Speaking of which, some architectural illustrations of such houses:

 

[thecharioteer]

Unlike the Grange, the remainder of the great Park Lot estates, usually met the fate of demolition and subdivision. One such example was Heydon Villa, the 1864 mansion built by George Taylor Denison III (http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/154407) southwest of College and Dovercourt (see http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/heydonhouse.htm).

The first pic is from the Star Archives, announcing the proposed demolition of Heydon Villa in 1923:

1923 caption: HEYDON VILLA SOLD. Above is shown a photograph of Heydon Villa, the home of the late Col. George Taylor Denison, Toronto's famous police magistrate, which together with 4.7 acres of the Denison estate surrounding it has been sold to a Toronto syndicate for sub-division purposes for $75,000 through the agency of the real estate department of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, 253 Bay street. Last Published: 7/19/1923

1884 Goad Atlas (note the other great Denison estate "Dover Court" (http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/Dover Court House.htm) to the east at the top of Lakeview; to the south-west was "Rusholme" http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/Rusholme.htm

Frederick Charles Denison and family at Rusholme July 8, 1895:

1910:

The subdivision 1931:

Today:

 

[Urban Shocker]

Very interesting post, wwwebster. Unlike The Grange or Hazelburn or any of the Park Lot Family Compact estates, the Gooderham Residence on Mill Street owes more to the British tradition of the "house on the hill" owned by the factory or mill owner, in which the owner probably knew all the workers by name and spent his entire day in the factory.

It was, of course, the next generation that decamped for the greener (and cleaner) pastures of Jarvis and St. George Streets.

... also, the workers' cottages were eliminated as the business grew and profits increased - though things have come full circle and it has become a mixed residential/commercial enterprise again.

 

[adma]

If I'm not mistaken, the F.C. Denison estate on St Ann's might still be extant...

 

[thecharioteer]

If I'm not mistaken, the F.C. Denison estate on St Ann's might still be extant...

You may be right, adma. This house seems to be in the right location and is the only Victorian house on St. Anne's west of Rusholme:

 

[thecharioteer]

I always wondered what happened to the Exchange Building on Wellington at Leader Lane, one of the finest Georgian buildings of early Toronto. I found out, by accident, running across some photos on the Toronto Archives site about the fire at the Imperial Bank on Wellington East on March 20, 1941:

1856:

1878:

1941:

 

[thecharioteer]

October 1901: The First Royal Visit to Canada and Toronto

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, the future George V and Queen Mary visit Toronto. It would be hard to put in today's terms the impact this visit had on Toronto at the time, socially, emotionally, culturally and politically, particularly so shortly after the death of Queen Victoria (January 22, 1901) and during the Boer War.....

Osgoode Hall:

Mayor Howland welcoming Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, Toronto City Hall - October 12, 1901

 

[seemsartless]

Here are a couple of interesting pictures of 38 1/2 North St, now Bay Street, just south of Bloor Street - apparently built in 1905 and designed by W.R. Mead - according to the City of Toronto Archives record. Here it is in about 1908 as the Margaret Eaton School of Literature and Expression:

By the 1930's it is Mosher's and had lost the ornate front, and some of the windows, but the building to the north (our right) was still there as well:

Does anyone have any other photos of this building? http://www.heritagetoronto.org/discover-toronto/photos?page=2 has some details, but I wonder what Msher's was... when the building was torn down, etc...

 

[adma]

Portico a victim of Bay-extension street widening, I presume?

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

According to Might's Toronto City Directory (1933) Mosher's Dance Studio was an occupant at

285 Bloor Street East.

'phone: MI 7266.

Hiram A and Mrs Pansy B Mosher.

Regards,
J T