Architectural Drawings Toronto

[thecharioteer]

Libraries:

 

[thecharioteer]

From Montreal: Diamond & Schmitt's La Maison Symphonique

"Real" life:

 

[wwwebster]

An architectural drawing (on the right), an article about the same subject, and a bonus editorial about…Architectural Drawings!

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"An architectural drawing (on the right), an article about the same subject, and a bonus editorial about…Architectural Drawings!"
QUOTE: wwwebster.

The article mentions The Roman Stone Co, with it making and seemingly installing the manufactured stonework.

This company was under the direction of none other than Henry (later Sir Henry) Pellatt. Casa Loma, everything

else aside, was to be a showcase of Roman Stone's capability.

My take on the reasons for The E W Gillett's plant (S/E corner, Fraser & Liberty) being finished with Roman Stone

are two fold:

1) Pellatt's, Steel & Radiation Co (bottom of Fraser Ave) predates that of the beforementioned plant so they were

aware of the then vacant site from Pellatt. (Former site of The Diamond Park - baseball.)

2) Pellatt was associated with the Austin family and the John Craig Eaton family, both he and Eaton having bought

their lands from A W Austin. Eaton and the President of the E W Gillett Co were inseperable friends - hence the

Fraser Ave site & building. Gillett's, requiring another newer and larger plant after having outgrown the King at Duncan

manufactory would have jumped at the opportunity, having been burned out of their Front St plant during the 1904 fire.

Just my take.


Regards,
J T

 

[thecharioteer]

"An architectural drawing (on the right), an article about the same subject, and a bonus editorial about…Architectural Drawings!"
QUOTE: wwwebster.

The article mentions The Roman Stone Co, with it making and seemingly installing the manufactured stonework.

This company was under the direction of none other than Henry (later Sir Henry) Pellatt. Casa Loma, everything

else aside, was to be a showcase of Roman Stone's capability.

My take on the reasons for The E W Gillett's plant (S/E corner, Fraser & Liberty) being finished with Roman Stone

are two fold:

1) Pellatt's, Steel & Radiation Co (bottom of Fraser Ave) predates that of the beforementioned plant so they were

aware of the then vacant site from Pellatt. (Former site of The Diamond Park - baseball.)

2) Pellatt was associated with the Austin family and the John Craig Eaton family, both he and Eaton having bought

their lands from A W Austin. Eaton and the President of the E W Gillett Co were inseperable friends - hence the

Fraser Ave site & building. Gillett's, requiring another newer and larger plant after having outgrown the King at Duncan

manufactory would have jumped at the opportunity, having been burned out of their Front St plant during the 1904 fire.

Just my take.


Regards,
J T

JT, I love your stories! You should have a weekly column in the newspaper: "Tales of Old Toronto"

 

[thecharioteer]

An architectural drawing (on the right), an article about the same subject, and a bonus editorial about…Architectural Drawings!

Great article about drawing, wwwebster! Still accurate 100 years later. I seem to vaguely remember the Imperial Trust building, demolished I think in the late 70's and replaced by that dismal park called Cloud Gardens.

Two views.

1927:

1954:

 

[thecharioteer]

Design by John Howard 1845:

From The Canadian Illustrated News 1863:

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"JT, I love your stories! You should have a weekly column in the newspaper: "Tales of Old Toronto".
QUOTE: Thecharioteer.

The father of my father's last girlfriend, (he was in his mid 90's she in her late 80's) worked for The E W Gillett Co pre/during

the Great Fire of Toronto - 1904, during their tenure at King & Duncan St, and at the Fraser/Liberty St plant - 1912, before

removing to Mimico to begin a bakery business. Being "See J T" for my then employer, E W Gillett's old Liberty St

plant was one of my responsibilities during the 1990's; very small world.
(LOL)


Regards,
J T

 

[wwwebster]

...The Roman Stone Co...

 

[DSC]

The Bishop's Court building in Montreal is still there. See: http://archives.concordia.ca/bishop-court

 

[thecharioteer]

1903:

http://southeasternarchitecture.blogspot.ca/2010_04_01_archive.html

 

[AlexCorey]

That beautiful house on Highland Avenue by Gouinlock can be seen from a different perspective in "Toronto: A City of Beautiful Homes", along with dozens of other late 19th and turn of the century houses.

 

[thecharioteer]

1835 proposal for King's College by John Howard (TPL):

 

[thecharioteer]

TD Centre, Mies van der Rohe, 1963-69, collection of MoMA:



Reflected ceiling plan of banking pavilion:

 

[thecharioteer]

Park Plaza 1951: