On the charming little downtown street known as St. Nicholas Street, house numbers 45 to 63 are known as “The Cottages”. In 1883, The Scottish Ontario and Manitoba Land Company built ten row houses on the east side of St.… Read More »The Cottages of St. Nicholas Street
Uno Prii (February 28, 1924 – November 27, 2000) was an Estonian-born Canadian architect. He designed approximately 250 buildings, many in Toronto, but also around southern Ontario and the United States. Some of Prii’s best-known works are apartment buildings in… Read More »Uno Prii’s Annex Apartments
What do you do with an abandoned old train station? Why, turn it into a high-end LCBO of course! Located just off Yonge Street near Summerhill Avenue, this structure used to be the North Toronto Railway Station. It was in… Read More »10 Scrivener Square
For today’s TOcityscapes we’ll go outside the city just a bit – out to the Toronto Islands, specifically, to take a look at the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse. The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse was Toronto’s first lighthouse. It was built in 1808,… Read More »Gibraltar Point Lighthouse
After years of planning to attend and then never going (hearing reports of the crush from massive crowds had turned me off), I ventured down to the Distillery District’s Winter Village last night. Luckily (for me, anyway) we’d had the… Read More »Distillery Winter Village
The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto is a private club which brings together writers, architects, musicians, painters, graphic artists, actors, and others working in or with a love of the arts. Located at 14 Elm Street, the Club is… Read More »The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
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