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Three-storey brick structure with gables, several brick chimneys and wrap-around porch.
Heydon Villa, George Taylor Denison III House, College Street, south side, between Dovercourt Road, Rusholme Road, and St. Anne's Road, Toronto, Ontario
Three-storey brick structure with gables, several brick chimneys and wrap-around porch.

Heydon Villa, George Taylor Denison III House, College Street, south side, between Dovercourt Road, Rusholme Road, and St. Anne's Road, Toronto, Ontario

Date7/19/1923
Alternate Title
  • Heydon Villa, George Taylor Denison III House, College Street, south side, between Dovercourt Road, Rusholme Road, and St. Anne's Road, Toronto, Ontario
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Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: Heydon Villa sold. Above is shown a photograph of Heydon Villa, the home of the late Col. George Taylor Denison, Toronto's famous police magistrate, which together with 4.7 acres of the Denison estate surrounding it has been sold to a Toronto syndicate for sub-division purposes for $75,000 through the agency of the real estate department of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, 253 Bay street. [Incomplete]

Published in the Toronto Daily Star, 20 March 1926, page 2, with article, "Late Col. Denison's estate is sold for subdvision; historic acres on Dovercourt, Rusholme and College Street go into hands of syndicate--Heydon Villa passes".

Heydon Villa was built by George Taylor Denison III in 1864. It was demolished in April 1926. 
Subject
    Language
      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0112978F
      GeographyCountryCanada
      Geography
      GeographyCity, town, twpToronto
      Geography
      GeographyEast-west streetCollege Street
      Geography
      Geography
      GeographyNeighbourhoodTrinity Bellwoods
      GeographyNorth-south streetDovercourt RoadRusholme Road
      GeographyProvince or StateOntario
      Geography