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Baby Point Residence in Toronto
3 Apr 2020
Baby Point Residence
Architecture: Batay-Csorba Architects
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Baby Point Residence is a renovation/addition project in Toronto?s Baby Point neighbourhood, consisting of structural renewal, re-organization, opening up of the existing layout, and the addition of a kitchen and master bedroom suite.

The Baby Point district is currently under study as a heritage conservation district in Toronto. Occupation of this area dates to 6,000 BCE, and it is believed that the area was permanently settled in the year 1673 as the village of Teiaiagon, which translates to ?it crosses the stream?. By the early 1820s, prominent French-Canadian merchant James Baby had bought 1500 acres of the land for his estate. It was known to have apple orchards and salmon swimming along the Humber river. Baby?s heirs continued to occupy the land until the government acquired it for military purposes in 1910.
The Government had changed its plans to develop it into army barracks, and instead sold the land to developer Robert Home Smith. His garden suburb was developed in 1912 and was marketed as “a bit of England far from England”. This period was marked by a fascination with Medieval Revival, and the Arts and Crafts movement, so many of the initial homes built in the neighbourhood were in the English Cottage or Tudor Revival style.

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