IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO
HERITAGE ACT
R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER O.18 AND
CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
79 AND 81 GRANBY 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 79 and 81 Granby 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.
Reasons for Designation
The properties at 79
and 81 Granby 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 all three categories of design, associative and contextual value.
Description
Located on the south side of Granby Street,
between Church and Yonge streets in the McGill-Granby Village community, the
two semi-detached residential properties at 79 and 81 Granby Street were built
together in 1891.
The properties were included together on the
City of Toronto's Heritage Register on June 8, 2021.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value
Physical and Design Value
The pair are valued as a representative example
of semi-detached Victorian-era dwellings whose design is typical of the Bay-n-Gable
style with their 2.5-storey form and massing organized vertically on the
principal (north) elevation into two bays, the outer one surmounted by a steep
gable containing wooden detailing with the wide bargeboards and scalloped
shingling. Richardsonian Romanesque design influence is evident in the
surviving round-arched brick window opening on the first floor at 81 Granby and
the (currently missing) round-arched, red brick entryway spanning the main
entrance to both properties.
Historical and Associative Value
The pair are also valued for their historic
association with local merchant and real estate developer, Robert Kidney, who
was responsible for their construction and was their original owner as well as
the three adjacent, mixed-use buildings at 414-418 Church Street that are
already included on the City's Heritage Register. All five properties were
purchased by Kidney in 1890 and the existing group of brick structures were
completed the following year.
Contextual Value
The properties at 79 and 81 Granby Street
(standing between the adjacent Heritage Register properties at 414-418 Church
Street to the east and 77 Granby Street to the west), together anchor the
southwest corner of Church and Granby streets visually, physically and
historically, where they embody a surviving collection of late-19th
century buildings representative of an early period of land development in the
Granby-McGill community.
Heritage Attributes
The Heritage Attributes of the properties at 79
and 81 Granby Street are:
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 July 26, 2022, which is August 25, 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.PH35.11
Dated at the City of Toronto on July 26, 2022.
John D. Elvidge
City Clerk