Mustapha
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Hello Bloor, Welcome. I hope someone here solves your mystery. To me... it doesn't look like Toronto at all - those apartments confound me.
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Hello Bloor, Welcome. I hope someone here solves your mystery. To me... it doesn't look like Toronto at all - those apartments confound me.
Mustapha
Senior Member
M II A II R II K,
Nice flourish ending that series of the Temple Building with the stone relics out at the Guild Inn, thanks!!
Nice flourish ending that series of the Temple Building with the stone relics out at the Guild Inn, thanks!!
Mississauga Slim
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That doesn't look like Toronto at all. And, from the cars parked in the background, I'd say the photo is a lot more recent than it appears at first glance.
Mustapha
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York Mechanics Institute. 1861 - 1949. NE corner Adelaide and Church. Toronto's first central library until 1927.
c1920s?
November 2013.
It's the weekend, and some non-Toronto subject matter.
Wandering by our Union Station one could be forgiven a fleeting impression a demolition is underway.
Thankfully not, but 50 years ago New York City began demolition on their historic Penn Station. I had the inspiration for this post as I gazed out of my Hotel Pennsylvania room window across the street to the former location of Penn Station. Which segues me to a hotel opinion: The bathroom tile and the mildew in the grout had to have dated from the 1950s.
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/...elive_the_destruction_of_old_penn_station.php
c1920s?
November 2013.
It's the weekend, and some non-Toronto subject matter.
Wandering by our Union Station one could be forgiven a fleeting impression a demolition is underway.
Thankfully not, but 50 years ago New York City began demolition on their historic Penn Station. I had the inspiration for this post as I gazed out of my Hotel Pennsylvania room window across the street to the former location of Penn Station. Which segues me to a hotel opinion: The bathroom tile and the mildew in the grout had to have dated from the 1950s.
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/...elive_the_destruction_of_old_penn_station.php
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thecharioteer
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Mention should be made of the architects of the Mechanics Institute, Cumberland and Storm (St. James Cathedral, Univeristy College, Adelaide Court House, 10 Toronto Street). Terrible loss…
1860's:
1900:
The Protestant Orphans' Home Ball, 1870 (Composite photograph by Notman & Fraser; TPL)
Staff, 1895:
Standing l. to r.: Eva Davis, Rose Ferguson, Elizabeth Moir, Hattie Pettit, Margaret McElderry, Margaret Graham, Frances Staton. Seated, l. to r.: Teresa O'Connor, Mina Wylie.
1860's:
1900:
The Protestant Orphans' Home Ball, 1870 (Composite photograph by Notman & Fraser; TPL)
Staff, 1895:
Standing l. to r.: Eva Davis, Rose Ferguson, Elizabeth Moir, Hattie Pettit, Margaret McElderry, Margaret Graham, Frances Staton. Seated, l. to r.: Teresa O'Connor, Mina Wylie.
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Mustapha
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Graydon
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York Mechanics Institute. 1861 - 1949. NE corner Adelaide and Church. Toronto's first central library until 1927.
c1920s?
November 2013.
Has anyone come across images of the above building prior to its conversion into condominiums in the 1980s? I'm curious to know what the old parking lot looked like. Dating from the 1920s, its a fascinating example of early adaptive reuse in Toronto. I believe I've seen images of the interior where elements of the old parking garage still exist (ramps, etc. in storage rooms.)
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Anna
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Standing l. to r.: Eva Davis, Rose Ferguson, Elizabeth Moir, Hattie Pettit, Margaret McElderry, Margaret Graham, Frances Staton. Seated, l. to r.: Teresa O'Connor, Mina Wylie.
Funny thing, my roving eye picked her out too.
You guys...
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=31319&highlight=20
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DSC
Superstar
I had no idea that the Bentley (MTCC 596) was a conversion from a parking garage. I have been in the building and many (most?) units are on multi-floors but I certainly never saw any ramps. Interesting!
adma
Superstar
Yeah, keep in mind that it's the part on Lombard that's the ex-garage: the corner parcel that was the Mechanic's Institute was vacant/parking, or at most a gas station or something, until the condo conversion/expansion added the bow-windowed wing...
Mustapha
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Good.
Grief.
Anna...
You researched this, found the place of burial and went out and took a picture.
Amazing and Thank You.
Anna
Active Member
Good.
Grief.
Anna...
You researched this, found the place of burial and went out and took a picture.
Amazing and Thank You.
Not quite. I just guessed her age and typed her name into a search box. Somebody else took the photo.
http://canadianheadstones.com/on/view.php?id=203664
She's at Mount Pleasant if you and thecharioteer want to pay your respects.
Graydon
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Thanks for sharing thecharioteer! I've done quite a bit of looking into on New York City purpose-built multi-storey parking garages, I'm curious about how many of them existing in Toronto, or if this is the only one. Fascinating buildings, either way.
Interesting to note that they removed the middle window in the middle bay, replaced with unsightly vents (however necessary!).