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  1. Anna

    Unique Houses in Toronto

    Gone Gone this year Still there
  2. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

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

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    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
  4. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    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?
  5. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    "Baseball - girls match at Sunnyside - July 19, 1924"
  6. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

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

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    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.
  8. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

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

    Lost Road and Bridge: Lawrence Avenue

    '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.
  10. Anna

    Lost Road and Bridge: Lawrence Avenue

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

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    Yes, you're right - southwest corner!
  12. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    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'.
  13. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    Simpson's 1895 After the fire, 1895 1939
  14. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

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

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

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

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    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...
  17. Anna

    McGill Street Arch

    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...
  18. Anna

    Riverside

    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
  19. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    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:
  20. Anna

    McGill Street Arch

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

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