Tour group, Guild Park, June 8, 2019. Image by Ali Mosleh.
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Resource ID
7840
Access
Open
Credit Line
Image by Ali Mosleh
Date of Creation
08 June 2019
Keywords
art, architectural fragment, architectural history
Program Category
Tours
Rights
Ali Mosleh
Caption
Tour group, Guild Park, June 8, 2019. Image by Ali Mosleh.
Description
Tour members learn about Guild Park. To their left, a piece of the Imperial Bank of Canada and the 1875 marble sculpture "Musidora" by Marshall Wood appear. The oldest art piece on site, Musidora was inspired by a maiden in a Greek poem by Ovid. The facade comes from the bank location at 802 Yonge Street, built in 1928 and demolished in 1972.
In the 1960s, Spencer Clark, and his wife Rosa, began collecting the facades and fragments of more than 50 demolished buildings like this one, and displayed these features amid the grounds and the gardens of The Guild Inn - a property they had purchased in the 1930s and developed as an artists community.