- McCord Stewart Museum
- Photographs in the McCord Stewart Museum
- Mechanics' Institute (Toronto…
Where
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Pin: Church St & Adelaide St
- Held by
- McCord Stewart Museum via McCord Stewart Museum (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Creator
- William Notman
- Dates
- 1868 (indexed as 1868)
- Level
- item (source: Image)
- Scope & content
- Mechanics' Institute (Toronto, Canada). The York Mechanics' Institute was established in 1830. The architectural firm of Cumberland & Storm planned and supervised construction of a large, handsome building on the corner of Church and Adelaide Streets between 1854 and 1861. The reference library and two reading rooms were located on the main floor and decorated with oak. The music hall was located on the second floor and was reached by an entrance from Adelaide Street. When the institute became a free public library in 1883, this hall became the main reading room and a small addition was made to the back of the building to accommodate more volumes in the new stack room. This building served as Toronto's central public library until 1909 and continued as a downtown branch library until January 1927. The building was demolished in 1949.
- Location
- Church St & Adelaide St · intersection · confidence 80% · intersection · found as “corner of Church and Adelaide Streets between 1854 and 1861. The reference librar”
- Adelaide St · street · confidence 50% · street · found as “Adelaide Street”
- Subjects
- 1868 in Toronto; Mechanics' Institute in Toronto; Photographs by William Notman
- Access & use
- Public domain Via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mechanics_Institute_Toronto.jpg
- Harvested
- 2026-10-18T17:21:10Z · source datestamp n/a · commons
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗Mechanics_Institute_Toronto.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original