wwwebster
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George Playter gate house at head of Parliament St. Built circa 1818. Municipal address: 110 Howard Street. Owen Staples, 1914:
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George Playter gate house at head of Parliament St. Built circa 1818. Municipal address: 110 Howard Street. Owen Staples, 1914:
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Very nice, wwwebster! of course this building being a gatehouse can only be understood in the context of the area pre-Prince Edward Viaduct in which Bloor Street did not exist east of Sherbourne and Howard Street was one of the main route from east downtown to the north:
1858: The gatehouse is to the right of the path at the top of Parliament Street:
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The 1924 map seems to suggest that property owners on the north side of Howard continued to own their (noncontiguous) ravine land on the other side of the newly-built Bloor Street extension. I'm guessing this is sloppy map-making -- the city must have also expropriated everything to Rosedale Valley.
Nice find! But as you were probably thinking it matches the print awful closely - right down to the drape of the curtain. I guess it might have the same original source.
Here's another view of the later hall - this time with the tower! Some time 1910-11, by the election signs.
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The 1924 map seems to suggest that property owners on the north side of Howard continued to own their (noncontiguous) ravine land on the other side of the newly-built Bloor Street extension.