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The architecture of Toronto is an eclectic combination of architectural styles, ranging from 19th century Georgian architecture to 21st century postmodern architecture and beyond. Initially, the city was on the periphery of the architectural world, embracing styles and ideas developed in Europe and the United States with only limited local ...
This is a list of the oldest buildings and structures in Toronto, that were constructed before 1920. The history of Toronto dates back to Indigenous settlements in the region approximately 12,000 years ago.
TOBuilt is a digital, crowd-sourced database of buildings, structures, heritage sites, and human-made landscapes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada maintained by the Toronto branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. The database's initial catalogue was created by Robert Krawczyk in 2006.
Site Date(s) Designated Location Description Image Annesley Hall [6] [7]: 1903 (completed) 1990 Toronto: The first purpose-built women's’ residence on a Canadian university campus, and a good example of the Queen Anne Revival style in institutional architecture
Architecture of Toronto; Eaton's / John Maryon Tower in Downtown Toronto, which was proposed to be the world's tallest building at the time, later replaced with College Park; Manhattanization; UrbanToronto (a blog and online forum for discussion of buildings in Toronto and other Toronto-related topics)
Downtown Toronto is the main city centre of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Located entirely within the district of Old Toronto, it is approximately 16.6 square kilometres in area, [3] bounded by Bloor Street to the northeast and Dupont Street to the northwest, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don Valley to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west.
The Gooderham Building, also known as the Flatiron Building, is an historic office building at 49 Wellington Street East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is located on the eastern edge of the city's Financial District (east of Yonge Street) in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood, wedged between Front Street and Wellington Street in Downtown Toronto, where they join up to form a triangular intersection.
The book covers the architectural history of Toronto, [16] as well as Toronto history more generally from the First Nations' Toronto Carrying-Place Trail up to 1900. [17] The book was the first professional history of Toronto architecture, [7] providing overviews of the evolution of the city's building styles, mostly by focusing on monumental ...