Cawthra House
| Cawthra House | |
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  Location within Toronto | |
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| Coordinates | 43°38′57″N 79°22′46″W / 43.64917°N 79.37944°W |
Cawthra House are the name for two of three homes associated with the Cawthra family in the Greater Toronto Area.
William Cawthra House
[edit]The first Cawthra house was a mansion completed in 1853 for businessman William Cawthra by Joseph Sheard and William Irving. It is a now site of the Scotia Plaza office tower in Toronto.
The Toronto residence was one of several properties of influential Cawthra family in Toronto, became a branch of Molsons Bank in 1885, then as Sterling Bank from 1908 and finally as home to Canada Life Assurance Company from 1926 until 1929.[1]
Attempts to preserve the house failed and by 1949 it was demolished to make way for the Bank of Nova Scotia Building, now part of Scotia Plaza.[2]
John Cawthra House
[edit]The second house was built for John Cawthra (1789–1851) in 1830 as a home and retail store. It is still standing at 262 Main Street North in Newmarket, Ontario.[3]
Cawthra-Elliot Estate
[edit]Another Cawthra house exists on land once part of Joseph Cawthra’s land holdings is Cawthra-Elliot Estate in the Cawthra Park area in the City of Mississauga to the west.
The Cawthra-Elliot Estate is a Georgian Revivalist home built by W. L. Somerville for Grace Cawthra, daughter of Henry Cawthra and granddaughter of John Cawthra, in 1925-1926.[4] The estate lands were once part of Joseph Cawthra’s 200 acres Crown grant in 1808.[5] Following the death of Grace Cawthra-Elliot the home is now owned by the City of Mississauga.
Bricks from Joseph Cawthra House was repurposed for garden wall.
See also
[edit]- Canada Life Building - successor to Joseph Cawthra House as Canada Life Head office in Toronto.
References
[edit]- ^ "Toronto's greatest lost mansion—Cawthra House". 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Toronto's greatest lost mansion—Cawthra House". 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Heritage Sidewalk Markers - Town of Newmarket". www.newmarket.ca. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3024
- ^ https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3024
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