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I ! I I ' I ' I' No. 534-75 A BY-LAW I '• I • To designate the former Gooderhwrn Building at Nos. 49·51 Wellington ' ' Street Eru3t of architectural value. I' I I I [Passed November 26, 1975.J I • ' ' Whereas The Ontario Heritage Act, 1974, authorizes the Council of ' a municipality to enact by-laws to designate real property, including 'all ii the buildings and structures thereon, to be of historic or architectural value or interest; and

• Whereas the Council of The Corporation of the City of has caused to be served upon the owner of the lands and premises known as the former Gooderh·am Building at Nos. 49-51 Wellington Street East and upon the Ontario Heritage Foundation notice of intention to so des­

'• • ignate the aforesaid real property and has caused such notice of inten­ tion to ·be published in a ne,vspaper ·having a general circulation in the municipality once for each of three consecutive ,veeks; and Whereas the reasons for the designation are set out as Schedule 'B' I ! ' hereto; and '• ' Whereas no notice of objection to the said proposed designation has been served upon the ·clerk of the municipality;

• Therefore, the Council of The Corporation of the City of Toronto ', '• enacts as follo\vs:

" ' 1. There is -designated as being of architectural value or interest

' . • the real property, more particularly described in Schedule 'A' hereto, ' kno,vn as the fot·1ner Gooderham Building at Nos. 49-51 Wellington Street East. :2. The City Solicitor is hereby authorized to cause a copy of this by-Ia,v to be registered against the property described in Schedule 'A' hereto in the proper land registry office. 3. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to cause a copy of this by­ I I law to be served upon the o,vner of the aforesaid property and upon the Ontario Heritage Foundation and to cause notice of this by~la,v to be published in a ne\vspaper having general circulation in the City of • I Toronto. ' '

•• ' ' . - ARTHUR C. EGGLETON~ ROY V:. HENDERSON, Presiding Officer. . City Clerk. COUNCIL CHAMBER, Toronto, November 26, 1975. (L:S.) ..

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SCHEDULE 'A' comprised ·and the building ,on the •land adjoining ·to the ,vest thereof; thence southerly along the centre line of the last mentioned All and singul'ar those certain parcels or tracts of land and party ,vall and the prolongation thereof to the notherly limit of premises situate, lying and being in the City of Toronto, in the ; thence easterly along the northerly limit of Front Toronto, in the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (formerly in Street 56.00 :feet more or less to the place of beginning. the County of York) and Province of Ontario, being composed of: F·irstly: A part of the triangular piece of land lying ben,,een Front, SCH E:DULE 'B' Welling.ton and Scott Streets described a$ follo,vs: Commencing at !Reasons for the designation of the for1ner Gooderham Building at Nos. a point in the southerly limit of \.Vellington Street distant 35.50 feet 49-51 Wellington Street East. measured ,vesterly therealong from the point ,vhere the northerly limit of Front Street fo11nerly intersected the southerly limit of The Gooderham Building built in 1891-92 to the design of David Wellington Street at the easterly face of the stone capping sur0 Roberts is designated to be of architectural value as being a notable mounting the easterly ,vall of the basement entrance to the easterly example of a ·building by an important Toronto architect ,vorking in a end of the Gooderham Building ,vhich said ·building stands upon the combination of the modern Gothic Revival and the Romanesque Re­ lands hereb:r· conveyed; thence in a southerly direction along the ,iv'al styles. The building is perhaps more important in streetscape easterly face of the said stone capping having a radius of 9.71 feet, tenns for the landmark quality of the corner to,ver set at the apex of a distance of 10.M feet to a point in the nort'herly limit of Front the gore site. The to,,·er ,vas specifically planned as an architectural Street distant 35.10 feet measured ,vesterly thereon from its fonner feature but :fiunctioned even more as a sy1nbol of the ,vealth and position intersection '\\ith the :southerly limit of Wellington Street; thence of the Gooderham family in the Toronto economy. ,vesterly along the northerly limit of Front Street 69.90 feet more or Tess to a point ,vhere the· centre line of the party ,..,·all bet\\"een the ,vesterly building on the lands ·hereby conveyed ancI the :building on the lands immediately adjoining thereto on the ,vest intersects the northerly limit of Front Street; thence northerl:r• along the said centre line and the 'Prolongation thereof to the south limit of Wel­ lington Street; thence easterly along the southerly 0limit of Welling­ ton Street to the point of ,commencement. Secondly: That 'Certain 'Parcel of land and premises being in the 1Ci~· of Toronto composed of part of a certain triangular block 0bounded on the north :Oy \Vel­ lington Street (for1nerly

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