High Park Branch, Toronto Public Library 1916 Heritage Property Plaque, 2016
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Resource ID
5240
Access
Open
Address
228 Roncesvalles Avenue
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
2016
Historical Themes
Architectural Heritage, Education
Program Category
Historical Plaques
Rights
Heritage Toronto
Time Period
1900-1953
Caption
High Park Branch, Toronto Public Library 1916 Heritage Property Plaque, 2016
Description
1916 High Park branch opened on October 31, 1916. This was the second of three nearly identical libraries (together with Wychwood and Beaches) built by the Toronto Public Library with a $50, 000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The new library was needed to serve the rapidly growing community. Designed in the 17th-century English Collegiate style by architects Eden Smith and Sons, the building did not follow the Classical style of earlier Carnegie libraries. Chief librarian George Locke
wanted the branch to remind residents of "Scottish and English village type of architecture" while being "adapted to modern requirements." The brick and stone library features an upper floor modelled on a Tudor Gothic great hall, with a soaring hammerbeam ceiling and stone fireplace. The building was renovated in 1979, when two pitched-roof wings were added, and in 1990, when the north wing was extended and a glass canopy added at the entrance. Listed on the City of Toronto Heritage Register Heritage TORONTO 2016
Marker lat / long: 43.645094, -79.448888 (WGS84)