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Silver Birches

Built between 1906-1912, Silver Birches is a well-loved landmark on the remote north shore of Mackinac Island in Michigan. The Lodge is a rare example of an Adirondack-style Arts & Crafts log hotel and is included on the State Register of Historic Sites. After withstanding a century of extreme Lake Huron weather, Silver Birches and its outbuildings had fallen into...

Spruce Court Cooperative

...well-designed interiors. ERA has provided advice for conservation and maintenance since 1998 and has undertaken and organized various programs of repair on the exterior envelopes of the buildings. ERA has also consulted in the implementation of a Capital Reserve Assessment Report prepared by our office in 2007, and participated in the development of a comprehensive sustainability strategy for the site....

Spirit of Sir John A.

Confederation Park was opened in 1967 to mark the centenary of Canada’s confederation, on the site of the disused CPR rail yard and the earlier Market Battery fortification. Locomotive CPR 1095 (named, “The Spirit of Sir John A.” on occasion of the centenary) was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company Ltd., in Kingston, in 1913, and has been located in...

The Broadview Hotel

The Broadview Hotel is a landmark building at the northwest corner of Queen and Broadview in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourghood. It functioned as a community hub for businesses, clubs, and athletics, as well as a site for public meetings. The building was completed in 1891-92 for oilman and soap maker Archibald Dingman in the Romanesque Revival architectural style (the architect is...

Trinity Bellwoods Gates

Trinity Bellwoods Park was formerly part of a large swath of military reserve around the nascent Town of York, founded in 1791. In 1851, Bishop John Strachan purchased the land as the site for the original Trinity College. This building was completed in 1852, and all that remains of it are the gates we see onsite today. ERA Architects was...

The Carlu

...Ella Fitzgerald and Canada’s own Glenn Gould. The Carlu closed down in the 1970’s and was to be gutted, but thanks to a group of concerned citizens the seventh floor with its Eaton Auditorium and the Round Room were saved. The Carlu is a National Historic Site. ERA was retained with WZMH Partnership to direct the restoration of these spaces,...

One Millionth Tower

...Tower, brings the viewer inside the lives of six tower residents, sharing stories of their present experience, the One Millionth Tower showcases the bold ideas that residents have in re-imagining what their neighbourhood could become in the future. Through a series of directed workshops, the residents focus on the potential of the apartment site, surrounding landscape, and larger neighbourhood, with...

Mirvish Village

...a collaborative project team led by Westbank and Henriquez Partners Architects, who set out to reinterpret and extend the history and character of the site in a mixed-use redevelopment. Historic buildings and their uses are echoed in the new development, including the bazaar-like quality of Honest Ed’s in the new Market, the narrow 19th and 20th century store frontages on...

Royal Canadian Military Institute

...be built on the site, while accommodating the expansion of the RCMI and providing improved storage and display of their significant military library and museological collection. The new building will include a reconstruction of the historic façade as it appeared in 1935 which will be the main entrance to the building. The project involves the documentation of the building as...

Joy Oil Gas Station

...Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. It was built in a miniature chateau style, with distinctive circular tower and conical roof to create an easily recognizable corporate image. ERA prepared the station and service building for relocation from their original site to the south side of Lake Shore Boulevard for adaptive reuse to better serve the popular recreation area....

Ojibway Island

The Ojibway Club is a rare surviving example of the wooden resort hotel once common in the Muskoka region and along Georgian Bay. In the mid-20th century, this complex of nineteen rustic Shingle Style buildings had been converted to a community centre for the archipelago’s cottagers. The site included a main three-storey hotel structure with a tower and open viewing...

Richmond Adelaide Centre

The Richmond Adelaide Centre consists of a large block of commercial buildings in downtown Toronto. Significant heritage buildings, from the 1920s through to the 1960s exist on the site including the Concourse Building (100 Adelaide St. W.) of 1929, an important heritage property designated by the City of Toronto under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. 100 Adelaide St....