IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO
HERITAGE ACT
R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER O.18 AND
CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF
ONTARIO
72, 74, 76 AND 78 BERKELEY 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 72, 74, 76 and 78
Berkeley 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 72-78 Berkeley 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/physical, historical/associative and contextual value.
Description
Anchoring the northwest corner of Berkeley
Street and Adelaide Street East at the north edge of the historic St. Lawrence
neighbourhood, the properties at 72-78 Berkeley Street comprise a 2.5-storey
row of four attached Bay-and-Gable type house-form buildings completed together
in 1883. The subject properties were identified as having cultural heritage
value in the King-Parliament Area Secondary Plan Review (2019) for their
contribution to the area's Urban & Industrial Expansion (1850-1914) Period
of Significance and were listed on the City's Heritage Register in 2020.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Value
Physical and Design Value
Built together in 1883, the four attached
properties at 72-78 Berkeley Street have design and physical value as remaining
representative examples of late-19th century, Victorian-era row housing, which
proliferated in the King-Parliament area during the second half of the 19th
century. As a row or terrace of four attached house-form buildings, the subject
properties represent a key building typology in King-Parliament, which
originated in the 1800s as a residential and institutional enclave where the
side streets and many of the main streets were lined with detached,
semi-detached and row houses. The subject properties survived the replacement
of much of the residential building stock in the area during the 20th century.
The row at 72-78 Berkeley Street is distinguished by its Bay-and-Gable type
defined by two bays, one containing the main entrance with the other capped by
a cross gable above a projecting bay window. This late Victorian era design is
considered quintessentially Torontonian, and a significant building typology
found within the King Parliament Secondary Plan area.
Historical and Associative Value
The attached row of four Bay-and-Gable type
house-form buildings at 72-78 Berkeley Street is valued for its historic
association with Berkeley Street as the original eastern boundary of the
ten-block Town of York established in 1793, and for its association with the
history and development of the broader King-Parliament area during its Urban
& Industrial Expansion (1850-1914) period of significance, as an urban
townscape combining industrial, commercial and residential functions.
Contextual Value
Contextually, the late Victorian era row is
valued for its role in defining, supporting and maintaining the historical
character of the King-Parliament neighbourhood which contains the historic 1793
Town of York with Berkeley Street defining its eastern boundary, and reflecting
the area's evolution from a 19th-century residential and institutional enclave
and one of Toronto’s manufacturing centres in the first half of the 20th
century, to its current status as a mixed-use community.
The row at 72-78 Berkeley Street is
historically, visually and physically linked to its setting in the
King-Parliament community where it stands among a significant collection of
surviving late-19th century residential buildings along both sides of Berkeley
Street between King and Richmond, including 56 Berkeley (1845), 55-79 Berkeley
(1872), 106-112 Berkeley (1884-1890) and 111-115 Berkeley (1882 and 1872), all
of which are recognized and included on the City's Heritage Register.
Heritage Attributes
Design or Physical Value
Attributes that contribute to the value of the
row at 72-78 Berkeley Street as being a representative late Victorian era,
Bay-and-Gable example of the type are:
·
The setback,
placement and orientation of the row on its corner lot at the northwest corner
of Berkeley Street and Adelaide Street East
·
The 2.5-storey scale,
form and massing of the attached properties on their rectangular plans and side
gable roofline with cross gable on the principal (east) elevations
·
The principal (east)
elevations, each organized into two bays, one bay containing the main entrance
and the other bay containing a projecting bay window at the first-storey level
and surmounted by a cross gable
·
The brick cladding
(currently stuccoed) on the principal (east) elevations of the row and south
elevation of 72 Berkeley Street fronting onto Adelaide Street East
·
The original
arrangement of the window and door openings on the first and second storeys
Contextual Value
Attributes that contribute to the value of the
row at 72-78 Berkeley Street in defining, supporting and maintain the historic
character of the area and being historically, visually, functionally and
physically linked to its setting:
·
The setback,
placement and orientation of the row on its corner lot at the northwest corner
of Berkeley Street and Adelaide Street East
·
The 2.5-storey scale,
form and massing of the attached properties on their rectangular plans and side
gable roofline with cross gable on the principal (east) elevations
Note: the rear (west) additions to the
properties are not considered heritage attributes
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 to 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 February 14, 2023, which is March 16, 2023. 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:
https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2023.PH1.6
Dated at the City of Toronto on February 14, 2023.
John D. Elvidge
City Clerk