Address: 22 Yorkville Avenue
Architect:
Robert McCallum, City Architect
Opened:
1907, June 13
Yorkville Branch Library opened on June 13, 1907, in what was
then the city’s north end. It was the first of four libraries
constructed with a $350,000 grant made by Andrew Carnegie to the
Toronto Public Library in 1903. Designed by Robert McCallum, City
Architect, Yorkville’s classical, Beaux Arts style is similar
to libraries in many smaller Ontario communities. It features two
pairs of columns, a projected portico, Doric capitals, a bracketed
cornice, and stone quoins, band courses and keystones. Yorkville
is now the Toronto Public Library’s oldest library.
Major alterations
1978 Renovation and addition by Barton Myers Associates.
Heritage status
1973 Listed on Inventory of Heritage Properties, adopted by Toronto
City Council, June 20.
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