Address: 370 Broadview Avenue
Architect:
Robert McCallum, City Architect
Opened: 1910, October 19
Riverdale Branch Library opened on October 19, 1910. It was the
last of four libraries constructed with a $350,000 grant made by
Andrew Carnegie to Toronto Public Library in 1903. Designed in a
Georgian Revival style by Robert McCallum, City Architect, the branch
was constructed of red brick with white Ohio sandstone trim at a
cost of $24,174. Located at the "great transfer corner"
at Broadview and Gerrard streets, Riverdale was one of only six
corner library buildings built in Ontario with Carnegie funds.
Major alterations
1927 Boys and Girls room addition opened January 23. W. S. Butler,
Architect.
1979 Renovation and addition by Noel Hancock, David Simpson, Architects.
1991 Renovation and addition by Quadrangle Architects. Closed 2
December – 1993, 29 March.
Heritage status
1977 Listed on Inventory of Heritage Properties, adopted by Toronto
City Council, February 6.
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