Cabbagetown Victorian Houses

This stroll leads you through North America's largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing, showcasing gorgeous worker cottages, historic tree-lined streets, and a peaceful community farm.

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1. Wellesley Cottages

The Wellesley Cottages are a row of tiny, one-storey homes tucked away on a private laneway in Cabbagetown. You can identify them by their uniform, steeply pitched gables facing the lane, their white walls, and their neat, suburban-style…

2. Winchester Hotel and Winchester Hall

The Winchester Hotel and Winchester Hall rise from the corner of Parliament and Winchester streets as a substantial red-brick complex. The three-and-a-half-storey hotel, completed in eighteen eighty-eight by architects Kennedy and Holland,…

3. Metcalfe Street

Metcalfe Street is defined by its unbroken rows of late nineteenth-century Victorian houses, which form one of the largest collections of such architecture in North America. These narrow, brick-clad homes, often featuring delicate woodwork…

4. 156 Winchester St

The Daniel Lamb House stands at one hundred fifty-six Winchester Street, identifiable by its distinct Gothic Revival architecture and a history that stretches back to eighteen sixty-seven. While much of the surrounding neighborhood…

5. Toronto Necropolis

The Toronto Necropolis is marked by its distinctive High Victorian Gothic entrance and chapel, built from yellow brick in eighteen seventy-two. Designed by architect Henry Langley, these buildings sit at the end of Winchester Street in the…

6. Riverdale Farm

Riverdale Farm is a seven-and-a-half-acre working farm located in the heart of Cabbagetown. You can identify the property by the Francey Barn, a historic Pennsylvania Bank Barn built in eighteen fifty-eight in Markham and painstakingly…

7. Spruce Court Co-Op

The Spruce Court Co-op is defined by its two large, grassy inner courtyards, an architectural layout that starkly contrasts with the tightly packed Victorian row houses surrounding it. Built in two phases starting in nineteen thirteen,…

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