The Jarvis Street Baptist Church is located at 130 Jarvis Street, on the northeast corner of Jarvis Street and Gerrard Street East. The Church has its origins in a small group of people who first gathered in October of 1818,… Read More »Jarvis Street Baptist Church
Last year I published a post on the unique “Cube House” in downtown Toronto. A lot of readers expressed interest in that post, found here. The Cube House recently surfaced in the news, and I instantly thought of the post… Read More »The Future of Toronto’s “Cube House”
Scadding Cabin is a 1794 log cabin on the grounds of Exhibition Place. It was constructed for a pioneer named John Scadding and is now the oldest surviving building in Toronto. The cabin was originally built on the property of… Read More »Scadding Cabin
At 637 Lakeshore Blvd. West just west of Bathurst Street sits the Tip Top Lofts. Just behind it lies Lake Ontario. This building has a long and prominent history in Toronto. Formerly known as the Tip Top Tailors Building, it… Read More »The Tip Top Lofts
That’s right – I started this blog on July 31, 2022. Happy First Birthday! Thank you to all my loyal subscribers for sticking with me all this time. There’s still a lot more TOcityscapes to come! If you’d like to… Read More »TOcityscapes is One Year Old!
Is no historic building safe!? Passing these beautiful old brownstones on Maitland Street last week I noticed that a rezoning proposal has been submitted for 36 and 42 Maitland Street. These buildings are known as The Maitlands and managed by… Read More »Atrocity on Maitland Street!
This will bring back memories for a lot of people. These shots are from February 2017, so they’re too new to fall into my From the Vaults category, but too old to be considered new cityscapes (if that makes any… Read More »Honest Eds
I’ve been working on this post for months, off and on. Originally I had entitled it Jarvis Street Mansions and thought I’d focus exclusively on the remaining mansions from Jarvis Street’s so-called golden era. As I walked up and down… Read More »Jarvis Street Heritage
Hello everyone and welcome back after my TOcityscapes hiatus! If you’d like to see what I was up to while in Tuscany, Italy you will find my blog here. This past weekend I attended Doors Open Toronto and visited a… Read More »The El Mocambo
A private road north of St. Joseph Street, west of Bay Street, is home to red brick Edwardian style mansions that were built in 1892 by Remigius Elmsley as the first subdivisions in the City, located on the former family… Read More »Elmsley Place Mansions
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