Toronto Architecture from the 1940's and 1950's

[thecharioteer]

150 Bridgeland Avenue, North York, 1960 (from Chuckman's Toronto Postcards site). Checking it out on Google Earth, looks like the wonderful canopy is gone and the windows have been changed.

 

[Uncle Teddy]

And where's the tract society today?

 

[Goldie]

And where's the tract society today?

Today the Canadian offices are here, in Georgetown, Ontario.

 

[Uncle Teddy]

Cool lol!

 

[thecharioteer]

The Postal Delivery Building, Bay and Lakeshore, completed 1941, architect Charles Dolphin:

1949:

1958:

1959:

See: http://tayloronhistory.com/2013/02/...gemsthe-postal-delivery-building-now-the-acc/

 

[Goldie]

That's a magnificent collection of Postal Station history - my congratulations & thanks to thecharioteer.

This one matches nicely with my 2013 view from the roof of the Harbour Commission Bldg.

1949:

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[CityPlaceN1]

Very cool.

 

[AlbertHWagstaff]

Great shots. The picture with the streetcars is either 1952 or 1953 as this was the temporary Harbour Yard that was used to store Yonge St. streetcars while the Eglinton carhouse was partly demolished for subway construction.

 

[thecharioteer]

The Princess Hotel for ladies, 244 Church Street, 1950's:

 

[LowPolygon]

Thistletown Collegiate Institute, 1956. Architect NA.

 

[barit]

A true beauty.

 

[thecharioteer]

Very Smithsons' 1949-54 Hunstanton School?

 

[barit]

Indeed!

 

[adma]

Though Parkin, among others, also (and independently of Hunstanton) followed that ultra-puristic International Style path (which, in the end, probably drew more from Mies at IIT)

 

[LowPolygon]

does anyone know who designed Thistletown? someone mentioned they thought it might be an early Macy DuBois.