IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO
HERITAGE ACT
R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER O.18 AND
CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
49-59 HUNTLEY STREET
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO DESIGNATE
THE PROPERTY
TAKE NOTICE that Council for the
City of Toronto intends to designate the property, including the lands,
buildings and structures thereon known municipally as 49-59 Huntley Street under
Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as
amended, as a property of cultural heritage value or interest.
This notice is being served to
the Owner of the Property, the Ontario Heritage Trust, and any Objectors and
Interested Persons.
Reasons for Designation
The properties at 49-59 Huntley Street are
worthy of designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for
their cultural heritage value, and meet Ontario Regulation 9/06, the provincial
criteria prescribed for municipal designation under the criteria of
design/physical and contextual values.
Description
The properties at 49-59 Huntley Street form part
of a contiguous row of five near-identical, Victorian-era, Bay and Gable style,
2 1/2-storey homes (47-55 Huntley Street) attached to a slightly larger pair of
near-identical, Victorian-era, Bay and Gable style, 2 1/2-storey homes (57-59
Huntley Street) - totalling a complete row of seven homes. All of the homes
feature brick facades with brick detailing, wooden double-hung sash windows,
transom windows, and decorative wooden gables with bargeboard detailing. Five
of the seven homes within the row are configured as half bay and gables, as
indicated by their one-storey bay windows paired with steep rooflines and
decorative wooden gables - leaving a pair of taller, full bay and gable homes
at the north end of the row. Some of the homes feature wrought iron dwarf
parapets above their half bays. Considered as a row, the collection of homes
date to the mid-1870s, and are among the earliest structures within the Upper
Jarvis neighbourhood.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value
Design and Physical Value
The subject properties at 49-59 Huntley Street
share considerable design value as part of a discreet, representative,
collection of Victorian-era, half Bay and Gable style townhouses holding a
significant degree of architectural integrity. The materiality and
craftsmanship evident in the delicate brickwork (featuring raised courses of
brick headers outlining architectural elements), and the mix of hand-carved and
machine-turned millwork upon the wooden gables and bargeboard detailing, are
all representative of a high degree of design and skilled execution.
Contextual Value
Contextually, the subject properties at 49-59
Huntley Street hold significant cultural heritage value as they collectively
support and maintain the architectural character of the historic Upper Jarvis
neighbourhood. Built 1874-1876, the subject properties are among the oldest
surviving house-form structures in the vicinity, and together tell the story of
the area's residential development during the late nineteenth century.
Originally occupied by middle-class lawyers, bankers, civil engineers, and
business owners, the subject properties are representative of the early
demographic makeup of this fashionable corner of Victorian-era Toronto.
Heritage Attributes
Design and Physical Value
Attributes that contribute to the value of the
properties at 49-59 Huntley Street as a fine example of Toronto's late
nineteenth-century Bay and Gable typology include:
·
The scale, massing,
and uniformity of the contiguous row of five townhouses and two semi-detached
homes as defined by the subject properties
·
The high degree of
integrity present among the properties' extant original materials and
architectural details - brick masonry, wooden gables and bargeboards, punched
transom and double-hung sash windows, wrought iron dwarf parapets
·
The use of
decorative, raised, courses of brick used to trace architectural details such
as the tops of windows; the use of brick arches overtop windows and doors
·
The distinctive half
Bay and Gable configuration of the row at 49-55 Huntley Street
·
The prominent
bargeboard detail of the semi-detached pair at 57-59 Huntley Street
Contextual Value
Attributes that contribute to the contextual
value of the properties at 49-59 Huntley Street as defining, supporting, and
maintaining the historic character of the area:
·
The consistency of
typology, form, and function shared by the contiguous row of subject properties
which creates a discreet collection of late nineteenth-century Bay and Gable
homes along the east side of Huntley Street
·
The reliance upon,
and skilled use of, traditional materials including yellow brick, decorative
woodwork, and wrought iron detailing, which support the late nineteenth-century
character of the Upper Jarvis neighbourhood
Notice of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate
Notice of an objection to the Notice of
Intention to Designate the Property may be served on the City Clerk, Attention:
Administrator, Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor
West, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2.; Email: hertpb@toronto.ca within thirty days of June 21, 2022, which is July 21, 2022. The notice
of objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property must set out
the reason(s) for the objection and all relevant facts.
Getting Additional Information:
Further information in respect of the Notice of
Intention to Designate the Property is available from the City of Toronto at:
http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2022.CC45.5
Dated at the City of Toronto on June 21, 2022.
John D. Elvidge
City Clerk