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The Kerr Log House

The Kerr Log House is one of few remaining two-storey log houses in Southern Ontario. Built around 1845 by the Kerr family, early settlers of the former Albion Township. The log house was dismantled and donated to the Town of Caledon in the fall of 2001. Since this time members of the local heritage community have prepared a draft strategy...

Stanley Barracks

...surface to the north-east of the Stanley Barracks. They were exposed though archaeological excavation in the spring of 2012. As part of the Hotel X development at Exhibition Place, strategies to interpret the significant history of the ‘New Fort’ site were incorporated into the project. The main components of the heritage interpretation for the site were the conservation and adaptive...

The Kiln Building (Building 16), Evergreen Brick Works

“Building 16” at the Brick Works housed several massive kilns built in the 1960s for firing and drying bricks. The kilns were fascinating artifacts, but their sheer size — 600 linear metres occupying three-quarters of the building — made the space impossible to use. From 2010–2013, ERA was involved in dissecting the kilns to reveal their hidden spaces and internal...

Little Trinity Church

Dating from 1843, Little Trinity is one of the oldest surviving brick churches in Toronto. This polychrome Gothic Revival church was badly damaged by fire in 1961. At that time, the brickwork was cleaned by sandblasting removing its protective kiln face and leaving the bricks vulnerable to frost and water damage. A listed heritage property, ERA undertook a program of...

Adaptive re-use study in Bois-de-la-Roche

...as for the adaptation and enhancement of heritage properties. A number of local stakeholders and potential partners were also consulted to identify trends and needs in contemporary agritourism operations. With this in mind, ERA and l’Enclume formulated an overall picture of the site’s potential, presenting programmatic scenarios and illustrating development schematic proposals for the four buildings and their surroundings. The...

Osgoode Hall

Located in downtown Toronto, Osgoode Hall is a National Historic Site, which has been the centre of legal activity in Ontario for more than 170 years. The building is named after the first Chief Justice of the province, William Osgoode. The east wing of the building was built in 1829-32 and remodelled in 1884-46 by architect Henry Bowyer Lanes and...

The McGill New Vic Project

...Hospital lost almost all its functions and has been sitting mostly vacant since. In 2018, the Quebec government mandated the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) to lead the adaptive re-use initiative for the complex. The latter has therefore begun a master plan project for the redevelopment of the site. McGill University, which had long demonstrated its desire to expand its...

Eglinton St. George’s United Church

St. George’s United Church was designed by architects Langley and Howland and built in 1924. An addition was built in 1932 designed by J. Francis Brown and Son. The Church has a fine collection of more than 25 stained glass windows completed at different periods. When the church was built, the stained glass windows were set into precast tracery which...

Windsor Armouries

...popular style of Canadian military buildings in the early twentieth century. In 2015, ERA began working with CS&P Architects to restore the existing masonry building and insert within the existing fabric a brand-new purpose-built facility. The original brickwork was successfully restored, allowing for exposed brick on the interior and the exterior windows were also carefully restored to resemble the original...

Yonge and Charles (Shoppers Drug Mart)

...and growth. The second and third floors were merged into a double height space, in order to support the ongoing retail use. Maintaining the original purpose of the space as a popular retail location in an evolving neighbourhood was important to the overall approach to this project, as was maintaining the character of Yonge Street, with its two–three-storey retail façades....

The Roxy Theatre

...landmark building on Danforth Avenue because of its level of Art Moderne detailing and scale in relation to the adjacent commercial properties. Effectively the Allenby was a stimulus building in the economic development of the Danforth near Greenwood Avenue. It was chosen for designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act as a representative example of the style of...

Flag Field

Flag Field is a public work by artist Josh Thorpe, located at Maple Claire Park in Toronto. Flag Field consists of fourteen custom flags on flagpoles ranging from 25 to 50 feet high. Thorpe designed the flags as simple drawings of cats and dogs, stripes and polka dots etc. — images associated loosely with the leisure of parks. The flags...