Charles Thorne House Heritage Property plaque, 2019
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Resource ID
7525
Access
Open
Date of Creation
2019
Description
Charles Thorne, a real estate agent, commissioned the building of this house by architect David Albert Richards. In the early 1900s, it became home to John J. Seitz, president of the United Typewriter Company of Canada. He was one of the first telegraph operators in Canada to use a typewriter to transcribe morse code. Cecil A. Wright, Dean of Law at the University of Toronto and a key player in rebuilding law as a university discipline, lived here from 1942 to 1955. The renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Harold Hoffman of the Hospital for Sick Children resided here in the 1970s and 1980s.
Program Category
Historical Plaques
Historical Themes
Architectural Heritage, Business History, Residential History
Time Period
1835-1899
Caption
Charles Thorne House Heritage Property plaque, 2019
Marker lat / long: 43.674225, -79.384997 (WGS84)
