Gladys Allison Building - 5126 Yonge Street: Building was the Central Library of the North Public Library system.

Held by

City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives

Dates

[1960?] (indexed as 1960)

Level

file

Extent

1 photoprint : b & w ; 11 x 13 cm

Scope & content

File consists of a view of the library, taken from Yonge Street. Was the first library built since the creation of the North York Public Library Board. Gladys Allison was the driving force behind the creation of the library board and library system in North York. This building wastorn down in 1986 to make way for the North York City Centre, which contains the new North York Central Library. The photograph shows panels of the greek alphabet along the top of the building. When the original Central Library was destroyed, these panels were saved and have been incorporated into the main foyer of the new Central Library.

Location

• 5126 Yonge St · address · confidence 80% · address:interpolated · found as “5126 Yonge Street”
• Yonge St · street · confidence 50% · street · found as “Yonge Street”
• North York · neighbourhood · confidence 50% · landmark:geonames · found as “north york”

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Subjects

Gladys Allison Building (North York, Ont.); LIBRARIES

Genre / form

Photographs; Photographs - buildings - exterior views

Format

Photograph

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Harvested

2026-10-19T16:36:37Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto

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