Tag Archives: then and now

  Then: 145 South Drive, deepest Rosedale, circa 1909. (Picture provided by wwwebster.)   Now: June 2011.  Ah, OK, this isn’t going to work. Let’s go around to the other side. That’s better.  🙂 Source: Then and Now: South Drive, Rosedale | Urban Toronto.

Then: January 10, 1935. Rear southeast corner of Winchester and “Medcalfe.” Actually it’s Metcalfe with a ‘t” not a “d” as it is in the official description in the photo. Now: June 2011. No changes here.  An older elegant, unmolested walk-up apartment on an equally elegant corner in Cabbagetown. The church in both pictures is St. Enoch’s Presbyterian Church, built in 1890, now home of The Toronto Dance Theatre. Source: Then and Now: Winchester and Metcalfe | Urban Toronto.

I always thought that this was a semi-detached property until I read the post i found on Urban Toronto talking about the history of 27 Sherbourne Street North.  I hope you enjoy the brief history lesson. Then: 27 Sherbourne Street North. Built 1907 by Sproatt and Rolph (U of T Hart House, Eaton’s College Park) for the Gooderham family. Said family being responsible for a distillery of some repute in Toronto’s early history in an area now known as the Distillery District. Additionally responsible as well for the Gooderham/”Flatiron” building on the triangular parcel of land at Church and Front. …