John FitzGerald's photos with the keyword: house

The H. St. George Baldwin House (1878), Lowther Avenue,Toronto. I have been unable to find out who the architect was.The Baldwins were a socially prominent family at the time, and, thanks to Andrew Trundlewagon, I have learned that Henry St. George was a nephew of Robert Baldwin, a very important figure in the history of Ontario.

Toronto, 2016.

The James Cooper house (1880, Charles J. Read), Sherbourne Street, Toronto

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park weekly theme of "On the Street Where You Live". I have been unable to identify the military the overcoat was issued by or the style or region of the house, so if you know please let me know. Thanks.

Norwich (re-edit).

Steven Teeple Architect, 1999.

The architect's site doesn't mention this house, so I don't know what it looks like now. If I could remember the address I could look it up on Street View, but I don't remember the address.

A half-bay-and-gable house, with a window bay only on the ground floor. For more about bay-and-gable houses, click the PiP at top left. Toronto houses album: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1341942?with=51861620

It's getting harder to find old photos that fit with the season, so I thought I'd add some photos of supposedly unique Toronto building styles. One of the reasons I say these styles are supposedly unique is that outside Toronto this house would be considered a variety of Queen Anne Revival, the variation being the Romanesque ground floor. In Toronto, though, they're called Annex houses because the style started in a neighbourhood called the Annex. And this is the first one. It was built in 1887 and designed by E. J. Lennox, the leading Toronto architect of the day. He is best known for Old City Hall and Casa Loma.

The bay-and-gable is another domestic architectural style that many consider unique to Toronto, although I have seen a photo of a similar example from Northern Ontario. Anyway, a bay and gable is a Gothic Revival house with a door on one side and a bay window on the other that rises two-and-a-half storeys into a gable. This one retains its original gingerbread in the gable, which is increasingly rare, for understandable reasons. Its mirror-image neighbour has lost its. The Richardsonian-style porch is looking better than most such surviving porches in Toronto -- usually the pillars and piers splay outward, A lot of these porches have been replaced by wrought-iron ones or just removed. There was a craze in Toronto in the 1960s for tearing off the porches of these houses, painting the brick white and the detail black, and replacing any lawn with gravel. Today, though, that style has disappeared and the bay-and-gable has become a meme in Toronto, with many new buildings going up in a stripped-down version of it.

Another view of Waverley, from the back this time. The other photo I posted is in the PiP at upper left. More information about the house at this link: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/50561638

A flint cottage in/on Bishopgate, Norwich. This is proudwork, in which the rounded ends of the stones face outward. I believe the gable-ends rising higher than the roof are typical of older East Anglian houses and cottages. This is in/on Bishopgate in Norwich. Photos of two other flint houses from this street are posted to the right...

A flint house, built in 1855, in/on Bishopgate, Norwich. This is proudwork, in which the rounded ends of the stones face outward. I believe the gable-ends rising higher than the roof are typical of older East Anglian houses and cottages. Another flint house is posted to the left and another to the right. All are in/on Bishopgate in Norwich.

The oldest of the three flint houses I uploaded photos of today. This is a half-timber building in the original sense -- that is, it has a stone ground floor with timber construction above. The beams may well have been plastered over for much of its life. Again the raised gable ends are common features of older East Anglian houses and cottages. All three houses are in/on Bishopgate in Norwich. The other two are posted to the left..