Cabbagetown is a neighborhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Administratively, it is defined as part of the Cabbagetown-South St Jamestown neighborhood. It largely features semi-detached Victorian homes and is recognized as "the largest continuously preserved Victoria residential area throughout North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association.
The name Cabbagetown comes from Irish immigrants who moved into the neighborhood that began in the late 1840s, said to be so poor that they planted cabbage in their front yard. Novel Canadian writer Hugh Garner,
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Histori
The area now known as Cabbagetown was first known as the village of Don Vale, outside of Toronto. Before the 1850s it consisted of farmland decorated with cottages and vegetable plots. It grew in the 1840s around the Winchester Street Bridge, which prior to the construction of Prince Edward Viaduct is the main northern bridge over the Don River. It's near the site where Castle Frank Brook flows in the Don River. Over the bridge, Don Vale Tavern and Fox's Inn were established to serve tourists. In 1850 the Toronto Necropolis was established in the area as the main cemetery of the city.
At the end of the 19th century the area was absorbed into the city. It is home to working-class Irish citizens working in industry along the shores of the lake to the south in Corktown. Stylish Victorian-style houses are built throughout the area. The name Cabbagetown is supposedly derived from the stories of new Irish immigrants who dug their front yard and planted cabbage. In this era the name Cabbagetown is most often applied to the southern area of ​​Gerrard Street, with the northern part still called Don Vale. It was a working class neighborhood, but it reached the height of its prosperity just before the First World War, which comes from when many brick houses in dated areas.
After the war, the region became increasingly poor. A large number of poor people moved, many were forced to share one home among many families. The nineteenth-century brick houses began to deteriorate, and since landlords saw less value in the neighborhood, they were not nurtured. This is known as one of the biggest slums in Toronto and many of the original Cabbagetown were destroyed in the late 1940s to make room for the Regent Park residential project. The entry of new immigrants also leads to the onset of ethnic diversity in the neighborhood. The remainder to the north, then known as Don Vale, is also scheduled to be cleared and replaced by a housing project. In 1964 a Toronto Star writer wrote that "Cabbagetown has been a downhill journey and if you are on the way, you would not dare stay there long unless you live in Regent Park."
Construction of new housing projects was stopped in the 1970s. At Don Mount this effort was led by Karl Jaffary, who was elected to the city council in 1969 city elections along with a group of like-minded members of the council who opposed sweeping urban renewal plans. John Sewell leads the effort to preserve Trefann Court, which covers the southern part of the original Cabbagetown. The local regulation was approved in the 1970s to ban any building higher than four floors, in response to the high density built in the neighboring city of St. Petersburg. James.
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Gentrification
Cabbagetown is glorified by prosperous professionals, beginning in the 1970s. Many residents restore small Victorian houses and become community activists. Darrell Kent, a resident and local businessman, is recognized by the community as the driving force behind the restoration of many beautiful and unique Victorian houses in the area. Since Kent is a gay real estate agent, gay men and some lesbians make up Cabbagetown's earliest and fanciful group. They are still an important part of the current population, and the region is considered strange.
In 1983 Globe and Mail wrote that "Cabbagetown may be a symbol of successful labeling" The essence of the area - generally defined as being limited by Parliament, the Wellesley and Dundas Roads and the Don Valley - once a bed on a skateboard in Toronto Today, about a decade after the area is attacked by young professionals, speculators and real estate agents, there are still some displaced people to give the area color, the house, meanwhile, is sold up to $ 200,000. "25 years after the article was written, some homes in the area have sold for over $ 2.2 million.
Vestiges in the 1960s, a counter-cultural atmosphere remained in vintage clothing stores, health food stores and gestalt therapy clinics. The Victorian gardens, once a zoo location, are located next to Riverdale Park West, where weekly farmer markets are held. Close proximity is the Cabbagetown Youth Center, the venue of Cabbagetown Boxing Club, an earlier, rougher past memorable. In recent years, several businesses from the nearby "gay village" of Church and Wellesley, have moved to the area, attracted to cheaper commercial rent.
Despite the gentrification, residents of public housing projects and affluent homeowners mingle in discount supermarkets and community medical clinics. Conspiracy and drug trafficking are part of the urban landscape; as well as gourmet shops, upscale boutiques and art festivals, book launches and wine tasting at local restaurants. Paradoxically, "The Gerrard and Parliament neighborhoods, located near Dundas and Sherbourne Streets, have the largest concentration of homeless shelters and drop-in centers in Canada and are also distinguished by the large number of boarding houses and other forms of low-income housing."
Citizen
This neighborhood is home to many artists, musicians, journalists, and writers. Other residents include professors, doctors and social workers, many of whom are affiliated with nearby University of Toronto. Its proximity to the financial district and downtown has also made this area popular among other professionals such as lawyers, management consultants, and those engaged in financial services.
Celebrities who at some time became Cabbagetown residents include:
- Larry GainÃ, - boxer
- Amy MillanÃ, - Indie folk/rock singer and guitarist
- Avril Lavigne - Musician
- Lady Gaga - Musician
- Brent Butt - comedian
As part of a project called 'Cabbagetown People', historical placards have been placed in the noteworthy homes. Location maps have been established at Riverdale Park West, and the address index, with the names of former residents, is posted on the website devoted to this project. The listed persons include:
- Hugh Garner
- Walter Huston
- Ernest MacMillan
- Betty Oliphant
- Al Purdy
- Gordon Sinclair
Boundary
Original
Cabbagetown's original boundaries are:
- Gerrard Street to the north
- Queen Street to south
- The Parliament Road to the west
- Don River to the east
Prior to the government housing that replaced many of the original housing that began in the 1940s, Cabbagetown covers the current environment in Moss Park, Regent Park, St. Jamestown, and Trefann Court.
Current
The current Cabbagetown boundaries may be broadly defined as:
- Gerrard Street to south (east of Parliament)
- St. James Cemetery to the north (east of Parliament St.)
- East Wellesley Road to the north (between Sherbourne St. and Parliament St.)
- River Street/Riverdale Park to the east.
- The Parliament Road to the east (between Gerrard St. E and Carlton St.)
Heritage Conservation District (HCD) and Heritage Conservation Area under review
In 2004 part of Cabbagetown became a Heritage Conservation Area, protected by The Ontario Heritage Act. The district was formed in two stages: first a region centered on Metcalfe, and subsequent areas to the north and east of the starting area.
Cabbagetown-Metcalfe Area HCD
Cabbagetown-Metcalfe Area HCD (by-law 110-02 adopted by the City Council on 15 February 2002). The district consists of a residential area located east of Broadcast Lane to the east side of Sackville Street, and from the north side of Amelia Street to the south side of Carlton Street.
The layout of Amelia Street, Metcalfe Street, Elm Street (now Carlton Street) and Winchester Street was completed in 1844. Latham sold the 30-acre package to John Young Brown which later developed the Lot Plan 26. Lot Plan and the road network were laid out in Cabbagetown. The Brown property comprises the land south of Amelia Street to Carlton Street, and east Broadcast Lane to Sumach Street. John G. Howard, a leading Toronto architect and part-time Deputy Surveyor, enrolled the plan in 1851 for the City of Toronto. Bown continues to sell part of the ownership of this land to individual builders completing the earliest settlement in the district.
The Cabbagetown-Metcalfe Conservation Area Conservation Area boundaries created a Lot 26 Plan, registered by John Young Bown 150 years ago, which laid the foundation for its development.
The overall landscape character of the Cabbagetown-Metcalfe Heritage Area Heritage Area is the result of several individual landscape features. These include significant pedestrian scales to public open spaces created by the usually narrow setbacks of the houses of the sidewalk, the front yard of a small landscape defined by a metal fence or a wooden fence or hedge. There is a cable above the head mounted on wooden utility poles and large mature canopy trees, deciduous trees located on the front yard and boulevard road. In the district there are more than 200 trees, representing over thirty different species. Many mature deciduous trees with wide canopies protrude on the streets, creating a shady and shady pedestrian environment.
With few exceptions, especially on Carlton Street between Metcalfe and Sackville Streets, the buildings in the southern part of the district are usually closer to the road than in the north. Within each block, the decline tends to vary only slightly. Also, the houses in the south of the district are generally two to three stories while in the north there are more examples of buildings one and a half and two floors. The front page generally contains a small grass area and a planting bed with a main road leading to the front porch and front door. There is a very rare example of a single width road that crosses a path that leads to an interior garage or laneway. In most cases, parking is accommodated on the street rather than on private property.
The architecture of this district is especially late in the 19th century, often referred to as "Victoria," in style and influence. A number of Second Imperial dwellings with mansard roofs and Italian decorative features exist along with Queen Anne's queen style living quarters. The affluent Georgian Residence at 85 Winchester Street is one of the earliest structures still in the district. Presbyterian Church St. Enoch on Metcalfe Street and Winchester Street, furnished in Roman style, representing the influence of institutional ecclesiastical architecture in that period.
Although the area mainly consists of heritage buildings, the newer architecture is also represented in districts with a number of significantly renovated buildings featuring a mixture of old and new building fabrics.
The mix of residential buildings consists of 1- to 2 Ã, 1 / 2 -reading station buildings in narrow front yard and fenced in. Housing line is the main form and determines the character of the type of dwelling in the district. The integrity of the unbroken line of Victorian housing, seen primarily on Metcalfe Street and in certain other parts of the district, defines the architectural significance of this area. Individual separate houses and several apartment buildings are also present. Brick houses, along with wood-lined frame buildings and synthetic coatings, are found in the district. Properties made with plaster are represented in brick and frame structures.
The main characteristics associated with Victorian house building lines are tall, narrow bays and gables; decorative wood on the roof; and where still exist, decorative wooden verandas, often added to homes in the 20th century. Brick work is often a blend of red brick and red brick or brick combined with shaped ornamental bricks, stone voussoir or stone base courses. Buff brick buildings are also represented in the district. A small hut, one floor displaying the same architectural attributes. The Edwardian residence then has a lower roof slope and less ornate decorative decoration. The roof material was originally a slate or wooden shingle. Some slate remains, but the asphalt shingle roof is now the main roofing material. Windows varies in shape from flat head to segmental to semi-circular. Original glazing still exists in many residences, and many stained glass windows are present. Several original doors exist to complete the initial design period.
The interaction between the architecture and the various landscape elements of the district is important for its overall character. Many blocks that have an unbroken stretch of tall late nineteenth/early 20th century residential buildings and fenestrations, are rearranged consistently with small front pages. Street trees on public roads provide tree canopies on sidewalks and roads.
Cabbagetown Northern HCD
Cabbagetown North HCD (Legislation 259-2004 adopted by City Council on April 16, 2004). This district consists of the borders of St. James, Wellesley Park, Necropolis Cemetery and Riverdale Farm, to the north and east, the southern boundary of Riverdale Farm and the back of the facing houses on Carlton Street, to the south, the rear lot on the east side of Sackville Street up to the north side extension line from the many fronting on the north side of Amelia Street from Sackville almost to Parliament Street, and continue north behind many fronting on Parliament Street until once again joining the boundary of St James Cemetery.
Like Cabbagetown-Metcalfe, most of Cabbagetown North is a dense residential area of ​​houses that largely survived from the late 19th century or early 20th century. In addition to residential areas, Cabbagetown North also enjoys the presence of four important institutions that have an important history, St. James, Necropolis Tomb, Riverdale Park and Farm, and Wellesley Park.
It is considered important to include two historic graves, as well as Riverdale Farm, by reason not only from their natural inclusion in the area generally accepted as Cabbagetown, but also because of the very long intrinsic value and connection to the environment and the environment of significant inheritance assets and significant inheritance assets that each represent themselves.
In a nutshell, each of these four sites displays high-value buildings and heritage structures for the ward and community of Toronto extensively. The fifth major non-housing use is the Catholic Primary School St. Martin, a large property that includes heritage buildings, located in the center of a residential area.
Like the Cabbagetown-Metcalfe region, Cabbagetown North is an area of ​​history and context well described and discussed in Cabbagetown. Remembered by George Rust-D'Eye.
The area has a large number of "worker cottages", relatively small central office buildings, usually with one window on each side of the main door that is overcome by steep steep saddles. Some of them, centered around the intersection of Amelia and Sumach Roads, were built for homeworkers employed by PR Lamb Glue and Blacking Manufactory, standing at the end of Amelia Street, at the site of Hillcrest Park today, from 1848 to the end. its total destruction by fire in May 1888.
Among the large number of Cabbagetown North properties in North Toronto City property in the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties (see below) are: first house Benjamin Brick, 314 Carlton Street (1874); the Witch's House, 384 Sumach Street (1866); the Owl House, 402 Wellesley Street East (1892-3); home of Thomas Harris, 314 Wellesley Street East; the Daniel Lamb House, 156 Winchester Street (1867); Napier Simpson Farmhouse, at Riverdale Farm (1978); Donnybrook, at Riverdale Farm (1902); St. Chapel James-the-Less (1858), as well as fences and gates and a number of tombs, at St James Cemetery; Chapel of the Necropolis (1872); all the houses on Alpha Avenue (1888), Flagler Street (1889); Laurier Avenue (1889); Wellesley Avenue (1887); and Wellesley Cottages (1887); as well as a large number of homes in Wellesley Street East.
The area is also fortunate because it maintains and preserves so many large, lush trees, many in the front yard of houses. In the district, there are a large number of trees representing more than 30 different species. This is particularly beneficial for areas where many property owners and municipalities have worked to ensure that the inevitable felling of old trees over time has been accompanied by the planting of new trees and substitutes and encouragement of trees, shrubs and other plants generally.
In the spring and early summer this area lives with the color of leaves and flowers, with trees, shrubs and vines providing shade and obscuring some of the houses almost entirely out of sight. In keeping with the environmental traditions, the growth of the forsythia bush, with bright yellow flowers, especially prominent in May, has been driven throughout the area.
The whole neighborhood is adjacent and identified with the Don River basin. Two beautiful cemeteries, Farm property, and Wellesley Park make full use of the beautiful natural features of their location and provide public access.
The Cabbagetown North residential section offers several architectural masterpieces, but it is an exceptional cumulative architecture integrity that is entirely contributed by different types of buildings, sizes and scales, forming a symphonic mix especially in the late 19th century Victoriana. Most home designs come from vernacular patterns and precedents, not from architectural drawings.
Some, such as the Lamb House, Wizard House, Owl House, and Thomas Harris House, have attracted special interest and created fun for their unique blend of eccentricity and Victorian-style building materials. Much of the local architecture has been documented and described by Patricia McHugh in his definitive book, Toronto Architecture, City Guide, Mercury Books, 1985. Walk 9, Don Vale, and Walk 10, "Old Cabbagetown", outlined in him. books, among them including the entire Cabbagetown-Metcalfe and Cabbagetown North regions.
The architecture of the district is particularly late in the 19th century, often referred to as "Victoria", in style and influence. A number of Second Imperial settlements with mansard roofs and decorative features of Italy exist, along with Queen Anne's queen residence, the most prominent of which is the Thomas Harris House, at 314 Wellesley Street East (1889-90). Although most of the houses date from the post-Georgian period of Toronto architecture, the influence of Georgian style can still be found.
The Gothic-inspired forms include two very beautiful burial buildings and significant architecture: the Chapel of St.. James-the-Less, by Cumberland and Storm (1858) at St James Cemetery and Toronto Necropolis Chapel, by Henry Langley (1872) in Necropolis. The influence of Romanesia can also be found, for example, in the housing row at 103-109 Winchester Street and Donnybrook Pavilion (1902) at Riverdale Farm. The style of an Italianate villa is best represented by James Reeve House (1883) at 397 Carlton Street, the earliest house on the block.
In the 1870s and 1880s in particular, an area filled with houses designed by builders, most built on or very close to its sides and many front boundaries, many of which were in pairs or streaked lines, each has the same floor plan, but a mirror image to the next door. Although many of the houses look like brick buildings, most of them are skeletal-pine-frame structures that have brick walls of unsupported and protective decorative façade facing the street. The side and rear walls are often coated or covered with various wallcoverings.
The mix of residential buildings includes a large number of cottages and two and a half floors of "bay 'n' gable" homes set back with a narrow and fenced yard. Housing line is the main form that determines the character of the type of dwelling in the district. The unbroken integrity of the Victorian home-style row, which emphasizes verticality, alternative light and shade games, and steep roofs, determines the essential features of district architecture. Individual separate houses and some low-rise apartment buildings are also present.
Cabbagetown Northwest HCD
Cabbagetown Northwest HCD (by-law 325-2008 adopted by City Council on December 11, 12, 13, 2007). The district consists of a residential area from the rear of the property on the west side of Parliament Street, to the east, to the property on the east side of Sherbourne Street, to the west; and from behind the property on the south side of Carlton Street, to the south, to a property overlooking the south side of Wellesley Street East of Parliament Street, to the north, except the area between Bleecker Street and Ontario Street are excluded.
In 1850, the first recorded house built in the district was built on 192 Carlton Street, and became the home of Allan McLean Howard, the Clerk of the First Division Court, who lived in the house until the 1890s. McLean Howard House has seen some changes, especially those that occurred in 1907-8 with the design of Feldman and Goldsmith. It remains the earliest building in the district, a beautiful brick dwelling now used by Second Mile Club.
The most visible and important characteristic of the current district consists of unbroken highways from Victorian 2 to 3 houses and other buildings on both sides of Carlton Street, Winchester Street, Prospect Street, Ontario Street south of the projection Winchester, and Aberdeen Avenue, and on one side of each Wellesley Street East, Bleecker Street and Ontario Street north of Winchester.
There are some changes. This area has some, in some cases unfortunate, examples of 20th century architecture. Changes have been made to a number of Victorian structures, especially the addition of projecting storefronts on buildings on Carlton's south side. However, the overall character of the original Victorian environment, and the general combination of pleasant forms of the Second Empire, Victorian Gothic forms, Roman and Georgian, along with representations of later architectural styles, as well as the scale, mass and building relationships to each other and to has maintained the integrity that makes the district worthy of appointment, as it makes a significant contribution to the cultural heritage of the City of Toronto.
In addition to A. McLean Howard's home, the district offers a number of examples of Georgian buildings, built in the 1850s and early 1860s, 230-232 (overcome by Mansard's roof, perhaps from the late 1870s), 229-231, 209-211, 195 and 185 Carlton Street (the last one of the most developed and intact Georgian houses in the City), 21 Winchester Street (the Samuel Boddy House), and 56 Rose Avenue (built in 1858 facing south to Prospect Street, with the late 1870s tower).
The district also has a large number of Second Imperial-style buildings, which are marked by mansard-type roofs, pierced by roof windows, round-headed doors and windows with shaped head windows, decorative details on the roof and corner of the building, usually red brick , in contrast to the yellow brick from the main wall. Most were built in the 1870s or early 1880s. Good examples include 213-215, 197-201, 187-189, 181-183, 165-179 (Chamberlin Block, 1877), 226-228 Carlton Street, 13-15, 17-19 Winchester Street, and 257 -263, 271-277 East Wellesley Road.
Some buildings in the district were designed by architects. Most are based on pattern book design, accounting for similarities shared by a number of buildings built in the same periods with each other. For example, while most of the features of a pair of Georgian buildings at 229-231 Carlton Street have been hidden by the addition of projecting storefronts and stucco and paint upstairs, many of their Georgian features, especially the magnificent chimneys, can still be seen. Further along Carlton Road, in 209-211, another pair will be found, identical to them, also established in the 1860s. The intriguing preservation of this last couple shows what can be achieved if care and attention to the same detail is done to bear on the former building couple (even leaving in the shop attachment).
The beautiful Gothic St. Peter, Modern Church, in the northeast corner of Carlton and Bleecker Streets, was opened for service by Bishop John Strachan on June 10, 1866. The congregation had previously organized a service at St. John's Chapel. James-the-Less at Parliament Street. St. Peter's first minister, and petahana for the first 42 years, was Reverend Samuel Boddy, whose house "Merripen", built at 21 Winchester Street in 1858, still stands.
The church building, designed by Gundry & amp; Langley, the architect, has a red and yellow contrast, a tapered Gothic window, a rose window arranged in a Gothic brick frame, and a pointed Gothic bell tower at the west end, and a "roof" projected from its roof. In 1872, transepts were added. In 1880, he experienced a change to increase his seat capacity. That same year, a handsome Sunday School building in the north was erected, echoing the Gothic form of an old church, with complicated bricks. St. Peter survived a series of particularly serious fires in 1973. After the church was restored, Lieutenant Governor Pauline McGibbon and a large assembly attended a service on December 16, 1979 to celebrate the preservation and opening of the Toronto History Council. plaque.
The church's original bell, which fell to the ground from the tower during the fire, was also stored and restored to its place. Associated with St. Peter's is his rectory, at 190 Carlton Street, built in 1905 with Gordon & amp; Helliwell, Architect.
St. Peter has been designated under the Ontario Heritage Law by the City of Toronto as a building that has architectural and contextual meaning.
St. John's Church Luke's United, formerly of Sherbourne Street Methodist Church, is called in Landmark Robertson as "the most handsome church in downtown Toronto". The previous church on the same site, founded in 1872, was enlarged and replaced by the current building which opened in 1876. The building is a Roman-style architecture, built of gray Credit Valley rocks with brick ornaments from the same place. Then the addition has been built on the west side of the building. The architect of the building is Mr. Langley and Burke. This church has a Toronto Historical Board plaque that outlines its history.
Until 1887, the French-speaking Catholic Roman in Toronto did not have a place of worship to call themselves. In that year SacrÃÆ'Â © -Coeur parish was established. The first church is a former Protestant building located on the corner of King and Sackville Streets. As the parish grows larger, it is recognized that a larger building will be needed to serve 400 families. The land at Carlton and Sherbourne was purchased from William Gooderham, and in 1936 the building is currently blessed by Archbishop McGuigan.
The building is enveloped in yellow brick, with some of the typical details of the current art deco style of architecture in the 1930s. The parish continued to grow in number, and in 1951 a wing was added on each side of the original building.
In 1897, the Winchester School building is currently incorporated as a 9-room, 2-storey structure, with a third floor added in 1901. The building replaces a two-room school building set up on the site in 1874. Peter's, Winchester School also suffered a serious fire in 1973. Fortunately, the handsome building was restored and today boasts a historic plaque established by the Toronto History Council.
North of Carlton Street, on the west side of Ontario Street, was the first Christian Church Association building, built in 1905 for the design of FJ Bird, Architect, designated by the City of Toronto under Ontario's Heritage Law for architecture, contextual and historic reasons.
The charming Canadian Bank of Canada building, built in 1905 for Darling & amp; Pearson, Architects, stands in the southwest corner of Carlton and Parliament Streets. Patricia McHugh, in her book Toronto Architecture - A City Guide, explains the bank's building as follows:
"Resurrection, Classical Awakening with Doric columns weighs framing entrances like domes, above, the windows of the domestic Queen Anne bay and all. These little branches are often built with flats on the second floor."/i> A number of additional features and characteristics related to the district also contribute to its character and integrity as a significant Victorian neighborhood is what is now the Toronto City Center:
Cabbagetown South HCD
Cabbagetown South HCD (Legislation 887-2005 adopted by the City Council on 28 October 2005). District borders consist of Carlton Street and Riverdale Park to the north, Bayview Avenue to the east, Gerrard Street to the south and back of the property overlooking Parliament Street to the west.
Since development in Toronto usually moves from the south (away from the lake) to the north, many Victorian homes in the Cabbagetown South HCD District tend to be somewhat older and smaller than many in Cabbagetown to the north.
While the north-south core roads of Sackville and Sumach extend the full length of Cabbagetown to the north of Gerrard, many houses in the district are built on smaller streets, with homes packed very close together or in long lines, echoing them tightly packing roads - the existing home in Cabbagetown native, to the south. The front page generally contains a small grass area and a crop bed, circling the road through one side of the many paths to the porch, on which it opens the front door.
An unusual feature for Cabbagetown is the fact that many 1920s homes south of Spruce Street have a narrow entrance, testifying about the width of cars available during that period. Like other parts of Cabbagetown, this area is well-served with back lanes, excellent for a walk, and for a peek of the massive renovations made to the rear of many homes.
To the east border of the district is the picturesque Riverdale Park West, with magnificent views across the Don and River plains, to Riverdale Park East and the old Don Prison (1865), on the other. The Historic Spruce Court Housing Development, built by Toronto Housing Company (1913-1926), not only combines the beautiful and beautiful architectural style of architecture, designed by one of the great architects of the time, Eden Smith, but also features English The ideal "Garden City", with visual and physical access from residential units to well-kept gardens and spacious lawns.
The district contains some of the more modern institutional uses, such as Spruce Court School, and large multi-housing buildings and others on the north side of Gerrard Street East between Sackville and Parliament. These areas involve significant open space around buildings that, if developed further in the future, will require careful consideration of how each new development can best contribute to the inheritance characteristics of the rest of the district, through consistency and compatibility with the environment, in accordance with the Inheritance Principles and Guidelines contained in this Plan.
Special Importance in South Cabbagetown: Toronto General Hospital. By far the most important building affecting district development is the Toronto General Hospital, actually a collection of buildings. The main hospital building, designed by William Hay, architect, is a large four-story "palace" with five magnificent towers along his 175-foot façade. Central Tower is 100 meters.
The building stands in the middle of the block on the north side of Gerrard Street East between Sackville Street and Sumach Street, south of Spruce Street, from 1856 until its destruction in 1922. Associated with hospitals are: hospital fever; Mercer Eye and Ear Infirmary; a pharmacy for women; Burnside Hospital Lying for maternity cases; a resort for recovery patients; morgue; and, in 1881, the nursing school, only the second in Canada.
Also associated with the hospital are two important buildings, which stand today, the Ontario Medical Hospital for Women, at 289 Sumach Street, founded in 1890, and the Trinity College Medical School, at 41 Spruce Street, built in 1871. Both these buildings are now used in housing.
The presence of the former hospital site accounts for the fact that the houses on the east side of Sackville Street, all the houses on Gifford Street and Nasmith Avenue, located south of Spruce after the hospital was gone, and houses on the western side of Sumach Street, representing Toronto's architecture in the 1920s, unlike Victorian-style structures that are visible throughout Cabbagetown.
Most of the small houses on Spruce Street, Sackville Street, Sumach Street, Geneva Avenue, and Sword Street have been there since at least 1890, representing the Victorian-style balloon building built by small contractors in the 1870s and 1880s, an.
As in the case of other Heritage Conservation District in Cabbagetown, this district offers a number of individually-designated properties under the Ontario Heritage Act: 434 Gerrard Street East (Gerrard Street Pharmacy, then Avion Hotel) (1890- 91); 436-448 Gerrard Street East (1885-8); 377 Sackville Street (a unique house built by Bryce & Hagon for Francis Shields) (1876); 35 Spruce Street (Charles MacKay House) (1860-1); 41 Spruce Street (Trinity College Medical School) (1871); 54 Spruce Street (1882); 56 Spruce Street (1872); 74-84 Spruce Street (Spruce Court by Eden Smith) (1913); Mathers & amp; Hallenby (1926); 119- 133 Spruce Street (Thomas Brice, Builder) (1887); 289 Sumach Street (Ontario Women's Medical College) (1890).
The area has a number of "worker huts", relatively small central office buildings, usually with windows on each side of the main door overlaid by steep saddles. The area has some handsome Roman buildings (Avion Hotel, Women's Medical College, 58 and 60 Spruce); mansard of the Second Empire, both large scale (373-377 Sackville Street) and small scale (119-133 Spruce Street); a little bit of late-blooming Georgia (35 Spruce Street); and a large number of small vernacular Victorian houses, many of which feature polychromatic bricks.
The interaction between the architecture and the various landscape elements of the district is important for its overall character. Many blocks have unbroken stretches of late 19th/early 20th century residential buildings that have the same height and fenestration that are rearranged consistently with small front pages. Street trees on public roads provide canopies on sidewalks and roads. Although the area mainly consists of heritage buildings, newer architecture is also represented in the district, as well as a number of significantly renovated buildings featuring a mixture of approaches and styles of old and new buildings. Some, unfortunately, show insensitivity to the dominant character of the area. What is interesting, however, are the two new "roads" in the area, Gifford Street and Nasmith Avenue, both laid out, south of Spruce Street, after the removal of the Toronto General Hospital building, in the 1920s.
These cozy little houses on these streets, while maintaining the small-scale approach and high density of their Victorian predecessors, reflect a number of characteristics, which distinguish these new homes from Cabbagetown's previously rising homes:
- trend away from flamboyant and ornamentation;
- better utilization of new building materials, sanitation ease, fire and security measures, and other developments of their period;
- practicality without further ado, reflected in the use of functional and honest materials;
- platform frames, compared to balloon frames, construction, solid brick walls, and low ceilings;
- horizontal orientation characteristics of the house facade, wide roof, rectangle, heavy veranda supported by solid round columns; and
- spatial changes due to motorized driveways.
While homes in Gifford and Nasmith represent historical departures from earlier Victorian architecture in other parts of Cabbagetown, which make them no less attractive from an architectural and social standpoint, nor do they depart from the charm and comfort of individual homes, representing their periods, or from facilities a fun, friendly, and low street life that reflects the streets.
Cabbagetown-Southwest District (HCD is being checked)
Cabbagetown-District of Parliament (HCD proposed)
The proposed district boundaries will include the commercial heart of Cabbagetown, which will include buildings overlooking Parliament Street from Wellesley Street in the north to Gerrard Street in the south.
There are 24 properties listed in the city Inventory of Inheritance Properties and about 150 addresses for this area.
Education
Lord Dufferin Junior and Senior Public School is located south of Gerrard Street. It was completely renovated and expanded in 1999 to serve students throughout the area.
Nelson Mandela Park Public School is located on Shuter Street, south of Regent Park, with a mix of broad multicultural students from the area.
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School (junior kindergarten to 8th grade) was originally located on Winchester Street in Cabbagetown. 100 years later, the school occupies a modern facility at 444 Sherbourne Street, just south of Wellesley Street, in the western corner of the neighborhood. In 2005, St. Martin on Salisbury Street in Cabbagetown is closed and students and staff become part of the school community of Our Lady of Lourdes. Today, St. Martin now serves as a Pupil Alternative Placement for Limited Student Dispel (A.P.P.L.E.) program run through Monsignor Fraser College for students currently in limited expulsion.
Rose Avenue Public School is located in the center of St. Jamestown, south of Bloor Street, north of Wellesley Street and west of Parliament Street.
Winchester Junior & amp; High School is a public primary and secondary school at Prospect St. The school provides French Immersion and has a Toddler Learning Center, and partners in after school programs with the Cabbagetown Youth Center. This school is over 125 years old. Winchester School Community Garden is home to the premier school food garden on Thumbs Growing Kids. The school is bordered by Rose Avenue to the east and Winchester St. in the south.
Community association
The Aberdeen Avenue citizen, named Lord Aberdeen and his wife Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, established an active community association in 2006, Aberdeen Avenue Residents' Group (AARG) to address the unique issues at this Cabbagetown location.
Founded in 1982, the Cabbagetown Business Enhancement Area is a nonprofit organization with the goal of making Cabbagetown Area a desirable place to live, work, shop and play. The Cabbagetown BIA runs the annual Cabbagetown Festival as one of its many projects including events that focus on smaller, more free communities. It also works with local businesses and other community groups to promote and share what each does. Together we all want to grow and celebrate Cabbagetown and its rich history and culture in the heart of Toronto.
The Cabbagetown Heritage Conservation Advisory Committee was formed in 2000 to provide local support and assistance to the Toronto Heritage Heritage Preservation Service in preserving Cabbagetown's architectural heritage. The committee started as a spin-off from the Cabbagetown Preservation Association to gain municipal recognition of a unique historic character in the area. Under Peggy Kurtin's special guidance, the volunteer committee is actively researching and documenting significant Cabbagetown historic and architectural homes and buildings from 1995 until his death in 2009. The first official legacy status was reached for the area around Metcalfe Road in 2004. Since then, all eastern Cabbagetown Parliament has received HCD status, along with the northern neighborhoods of Carlton to Wellesley. The committee now works to acquire more than 600 residential and commercial properties throughout Cabbagetown in southern Carlton that are protected by legacy legislation. Committee members are Cabbagetown residents who serve in voluntary capacity. In addition, the Committee has recruited four leading Toronto architects to provide expert guidance and become a resource for the community. While the committee is now an independent volunteer board, we appreciate the ongoing expertise and financial support provided by the Cabbagetown Preservation Association.
Founded in 2004, the Cabbagetown/Regent Park Community Museum is a non-profit organization that seeks to actively collect, preserve and display the history of Cabbagetown and Regent Park using oral history, artefacts, photographs and printed materials.
The area between Sherbourne St. and Parliament St., from Shuter St. to Carlton St. has its own inhabitant association, Cabbagetown South Association. The Southern Association of Cabbagetown was formed in 2002 from the incorporation of the Central Cabbagetown (CENTRA) Association, formerly part of Cabbagetown South north of Gerrard Street E., and Seaton Ontario Berkeley Residents Association (SOBRA), which previously represented the streets of south of Gerrard Street E.
The Don Vale Cabbagetown Residents Association (DVCRA) was originally established in 1967, according to its website. It states its purpose to protect and improve the quality of public life and community character. This association defines its western boundary as the Parliament Road.
Culture
The (Yearly) Cabbagetown Festival is held on the second weekend in September each year. Individual events during this week lead to a two-day Festival on weekends. The highlight of the Festival is a parade on Saturday morning, which usually starts at 10:00 am. The route may vary from year to year, but the parade usually includes bands, buoys and local politicians. Parliament Street between Wellesley Street East and Carlton Street is closed for weekend traffic. An exhibition of arts and crafts takes place all weekend at Riverdale Park West, adjacent to Riverdale Farm. Vendors come from far away for this event. The organization of this festival is coordinated by the Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area (http://cabbagetownto.com/). The festival also includes the 'Tour of Homes' hosted by the Cabbagetown Preservation Association. Every year several different local homes are open to paying public.
The Cabbagetown Short Film & amp; The Video Festival features short films from around the world and is held during the Cabbagetown Festival each year. Actress, producer and writer Gina Dineen founded Short Film & amp; Video Festival in 1992. Since then it has evolved into an international jury screening, featuring many Canadian filmmakers and genres including animations, documentaries, dramatic narratives, comedy, experimental and music. None of the production runs more than 15 minutes.
A renovated historic church, the Winchester Street Theater, at 80 Winchester Street, the home of both the Toronto Dance Theater and The School of Toronto Dance Theater. Close to at 509 Parliament Street, Danny Grossman Dance Company, Canadian Dance Theater, Canadian Children's Dance Schools and TILT Sound Motion share large renovated buildings that housed several CBC radio studios until the early 1990s. These places host dance and theater performances at various times throughout the year.
The first week in May saw Forsythia's annual festival organized by the Cabbagetown Population Association. The festival includes a parade from Riverdale Park West to Wellesley Park, where games and family entertainment are held. Locals, storytellers and entertainers Tony Brady (1935-1991) founded the Forsythia Festival in 1971 and participate each year in character as alter ego, Briget The Clown.
Books on Cabbagetown
- Cabbagetown Shop , J.V. McAree (short story)
- Ryerson Press (1953) (113 pages)
- Working People : Living in a downtown urban environment, James Lorimer & amp; Myfanwy Phillips
- James Lewis & amp; Samuel Ltd (1971) (hardcover) ISBNÃ, 0-88862-011-X (274 pages)
- James Lewis & amp; Samuel Ltd (1971) (paperback) ISBNÃ, 0-88862-012-8 (274 pages)
- Cabbagetown , Hugh Garner (novel)
- McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Trade (1978) ISBNÃ, 0-07-082702-8 (415 pages)
- McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Trade (2002) ISBNÃ, 0-07-091552-0 (424 pages)
- Cabbagetown: Victorian neighborhood story , Penina Coopersmith
- James Lorimer & amp; Co (1998) ISBNÃ, 1-55028-579-3 (96 pages)
- Cabbagetown Remembered , George H. Rust-D'Eye
- The Boston Mills Press (1984) ISBN: 0-919783-00-7
- Cabbagetown in Pictures , Colleen Kelly
- Toronto Public Library (1984) ISBN: 0-919486-71-1
- Visiting Old Cabbagetown
- The Cabbagetown Preservation Association (1992) ISBN: 0-9696394-0-6
- The Banker of Cabbagetown , Eric S. Rosen
- s.n. (1991) ISBN: 0-9692017-3-7
- Picture of Cabbagetown Photography by James Wiley
- V.A. Gates (1994) OCLCÃ, 317823728 (128 pages)
- The Knot , Tim Wynne-Jones (novel)
- McClelland and Stewart Limited (1982) ISBNÃ, 0-7710-9051-X
- The IntrudersÃ,: A Novel , Hugh Garner
- McGraw-Hill Ryerson (1976) OCLCÃ, 2603265
- Cabbagetown DiaryÃ,: A Documentary , (novel) Juan Butler
- Peter Martin Associates, Ltd. (1970) ISBNÃ, 0-88778-040-7
See also
- List of annual events in Toronto
- List of neighborhoods in Toronto
- List of parks in Toronto
References
External links
- http://cabbagetownto.com/
- The Cabbagetown Community Site
- Cabbagetown/Regent Park Community Museum
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