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Colborne Lodge. This rare Regency picturesque cottage is a graceful monument to John and Jemima Howard, the couple who founded High Park. John Howard, one of Toronto's first architects, as well as a City engineer and surveyor, built Colborne Lodge in 1837. Drop in and view the many original furnishings and artifacts and some of John Howard's ...
5172 Yonge St. History. Gibson House Museum is a red brick Georgian Revival farmhouse on land acquired and lived on by the Gibson family beginning in 1829. David Gibson and his sons surveyed (measured and mapped) land for settlement as a part of a 19th-Century settler colonial agenda. After the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 David was wanted by ...
Colborne Lodge, a nineteenth-century Regency-era lakeside summer cottage, was built by two painters, John and Jemima Howard, one also an architect and engineer. The Lodge still holds original collections of the Howards’s art, architectural drawings, and inventions as well as stories of their eccentric lives – from science, technology, and medicine to illness, adultery, and reported hauntings.
Feb 8, 2014 · Colborne Lodge in High Park. High Park in Toronto’s west end is the jewel in the crown of the city’s park system, containing stands of black oak trees that precede the birth of the city. Much of the land where the park is located today was the property of John G. Howard, who arrived in Canada in 1832. A successful surveyor and engineer, in ...
Colborne Lodge was the 19 th -century home of John and Jemima Howard, the couple who founded High Park. John, one of Toronto’s first architects, as well as a City engineer and surveyor, built Colborne Lodge in 1837. This rare regency picturesque cottage is now a museum and contains many of the Howards’ original furnishings as well as John ...
Feb 3, 2013 · Toronto Feature: Colborne Lodge, High Park "Rare Example of Regency Picturesque Preserved" Colborne Lodge is among Toronto's most significant historic homes. Built in the Picturesque style, with a spacious veranda and a tall three-part chimney, the house, which originally sat on a 165-acre property, was designed to complement, not dominate, the natural surroundings.
Mar 9, 2024 · Colborne Lodge – 11 Colborne Lodge Drive, Toronto, ON M6R 2Z3 Canada. March Break in GTA. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
