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The Background Of Victorian Building Design In Toronto

Properties are often defined as Victorian, but that isn’t actually a style. ‘Victorian’ structures usually describes styles that were most common between 1835 and 1900. Making use of many different styles it is hard to pinpoint a specific style, although each building will have a few details in common with each other. With diverse features from Classical and Gothic, these homes can be constructed using brick, stone and timber.

To see great examples of Victorian buildings in Ontario, then look no further than the houses; this is where the architecture is in abundance. All types of home, from the urban town property to the large country farm have been touched by this decorative style and sturdy craftsmanship. Making a home look great with artistic swirls, patterns and an eye for detail is what the Victorian house builder did effectively. Some European groups did not appreciate the design of the Victorian home, seeing the designs as fussy and overly complex. Though there was doubtless a huge mixing of the architectural styles throughout the period, the final product always looked to have a unity of design that made everything work.

The Cabbagetown Victorian Homes are here

Today’s builders build properties that leave hardly anything to the imagination, with buildings looking the same as the neighbouring construction with little to differentiate between them, unlike the builders of Toronto’s first suburbs. These builders began looking north of Queen Street for building areas in the 1830’s, and noticed that the land north of Queen and west of Parliament had been logged and cleared for farming. These empty ‘park lots’ would in the course of time house the homes of some of York’s (as Toronto was formerly known) most notable officials.

Farm homes and cottages, albeit only a few, were the earliest pieces of Toronto Victorian architecture to be erected in Cabbagetown Land split into a grid design of streets by John Howard, were the first building lots to be sold off in 1845. Buyers generally purchased narrow building lots that were between 15 and 20 feet wide, which made attached or row homes the most realistic housing type. There is a building on Sherbourne street which didn’t conform to the normal house build; that was Allandale which is found at number 241 and is a rather grandiose Victorian example. Built in 1848 to be the home of brewer and philanthropist Enoch Turner, it is wide by comparison to other properties in the area, with a large rustic front porch, ornate trim and two-toned brick in decorative patterns. Away from Sherbourne street there is another outstanding example of early Victorian style, this time at 424 Ontario Street – the property spotlighting an ornate gingerbread trim on the peaks and porches.
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