NEIGHBOURHOODS Wychwood Park

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History of Wychwood Park Homes in Wychwood Park

Wychwood Park was founded by Marmaduke All of Wychwood Park’s houses are listed on the Matthews, a landscape painter who purchased land Toronto Historical Board’s Inventory of Heritage here in the 1870’s with the hope of establishing an Properties. A handful of the fi rst Wychwood Park artist colony at Wychwood Park. Matthews named houses were built in the late 1800’s, however most Wychwood Park after Wychwood Forest, located of the houses in Wychwood Park were built in near his childhood home in Oxfordshire, England. stages between 1906 and 1935. A few houses were also built in the early 1950’s. In 1874, Matthews built the fi rst house in the community, at number six Wychwood Park. Many of the older Wychwood Park houses The second Wychwood Park house, at number were designed by Eden Smith, an architect who twenty two Wychwood Park, was built in 1877, by specialized in the English Arts and Crafts house Matthews’ friend Alexander Jardine. style. The infl uence of Smith’s traditional English house forms is evident throughout Wychwood Matthews and Jardine jointly bought the land that Park. abutted their estates and in 1891, registered a plan of subdivision for what is now the Wychwood Park neighbourhood.

Wychwood Park is historically signifi cant for the architecture of its homes, and for being one of Toronto’s earliest planned communities. The Wychwood Park neighbourhood was designated as an Ontario Heritage Conservation district in 1985. WYCHWOOD PARK Recreation & Schools

Shopping in Wychwood Park Schools in Wychwood Park

Wychwood Park residents enjoy convenient Vaughan Road Academy access to a large number of shops and restaurants 529 Vaughan Rd along St. Clair Avenue West. There is also a limited (416) 394-3222 amount of convenience-type shopping on Vaughan www.tdsb.on.ca and Davenport Roads, and on Bathurst Street. Bishop Strachan School 298 Lonsdale Rd Recreation in Summerhill (416) 483-4325 bss.on.ca Nestled in a thickly wooded valley at the south end of Wychwood Park is the pond. St Michael’s College School This pond is home to two swans named Oscar and 1515 Bathurst St Felix, as well as snapping turtles, painted turtles, (416) 653-3180 goldfi sh and mallard ducks. In the wintertime the www.stmichaelscollegeschool.com pond is used as a skating rink. Near the pond is the Wychwood Park tennis court which is so tangled in Waldorf Academy underbrush that it is barely visible from the street 250 Madison Ave above. (416) 962-6447 waldorfacademy.org The Wychwood Public Library and the Hillcrest Community Centre are both located on Bathurst Upper Canada College Street, within a short walk of the Wychwood Park 200 Lonsdale Rd neighbourhood. (416) 488-1125 www.ucc.on.ca

Rotman School of Management 105 St.George St (416) 978-5703 www.rotman.utoronto.ca

English School of Canada 79 St Clair Ave E, Suite 202 (416) 686-1596 www.esc-toronto.com WYCHWOOD PARK Description

Wychwood Park is a neighbourhood enclave While the area was amalgamated into the city of and former gated community in Bracondale Toronto in 1909, it remains a private community. Hill, Toronto, Canada. The small community is The streets and amenities are paid for by the located north of and just west local residents, and the community is managed of Bathurst Street. It was founded as an artists by an executive council. It is one of Toronto’s colony in the late nineteenth century as a private more exclusive neighbourhoods with house prices project by painter Marmaduke Matthews and well over a million dollars. Several prominent Alexander Jardin. The region was then still a rural fi gures have lived in the area, including Marshall region on the edge of the city, and Matthews McLuhan and Anatol Rapoport. In 1985 the area planned out a bucolic community and named it became the fi rst residential zone in Ontario to be after Wychwood in his native Oxfordshire. It is granted heritage status. considered part of the overall Wychwood offi cial neighbourhood as designated by the City of , a former Toronto Transit Toronto. Commission streetcar maintenance facility located immediately to the north of Wychwood The land was divided into irregularly shaped Park, was recently transformed into a community lots, with a central park built around a pond and park, while much the original structure remains as tennis courts designed by the architect Arthur a mixed-use community facility. Edwin Whatmough (born 1884, Toronto) who put careful restrictions upon what could be built in the community. Whatmough designed many of the houses that were built in the Arts and Crafts style. A few others were also designed by prominent architect Eden Smith, who lived in the neighbourhood. One of Toronto’s ravines ran through the heart of the neighbourhood, and this was preserved as parkland. Taddle Creek ran through the ravine, and it was dammed to create a large pond in the middle of the park. This is now one of the only parts of the city where Taddle Creek is still visible above ground.

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