Property Details
- Address: 269 Gerrard Street East
- HCD Area: Cabbagetown Southwest HCD (proposed)
- Property Description: formerly Detached, now modern library building
- Building Name: East of Berkeley / Edwin Snider House
- Original Builder: Hardy, George
- Original Occupancy Date: 1881
- Original Owner: Snider, Edwin
- Original Occupant: Vaughn, Robert
- Land Use: Institutional
- Building Type: Institutional (library)
- Original Architectural Style: Modern
- Height: 2 storeys
- Materials: Yellow brick, red quoins, string coarses; addition: stucco, red brick
- Doors: Solid ply, addition: double glazed, steel canopy
- Windows: GF: Arched, keystone sash stone lintels, sills Gable: pointed arch, fixed Addition: steel
- Roof: Asphalt. Carved gableboard. Addition: flat
- Secondary Structures: None
- Trees: Schwedlar Maple 20?, Mulberry 30?, Linden 100?, English Pin Oak 50? 3 Locust 70?
- OHA Designation: Edwin Snider House, 1880-81, George Hardy, contractor; later H. Beldon and Company; Toronto Public Library, "Library House", 1968; addition 1973 -adopted by City Council on March 19 & 20, 1990. Status: Listed, By-Law:
- HEA: Edwin Snider House, 1880-81, George Hardy, contractor; later H. Beldon and Company; Toronto Public Library, "Library House", 1968; addition 1973 -adopted by City Council on March 19 & 20, 1990. Status: Listed, By-Law:
- Plaques: Edwin Snider House, 1880-81, George Hardy, contractor; later H. Beldon and Company; Toronto Public Library, "Library House", 1968; addition 1973 -adopted by City Council on March 19 & 20, 1990. Status: Listed, By-Law:
- Other Information: Corner, wide side yard on Berkeley + monumental gable
- Significant Facts: all but one of original Victorian homes on this block were demolished for a rerouting of Gerrard Street in the 1950s
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