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GLOBE CALL FOR TENDER DATABASE
Kent Rawson researcher, 2005, NOW AVAILABLE.
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The complete text of every Call for Tender printed in The Globe (Toronto) between 1847 and 1890. 3207 entries. Your personal shortcut through hundreds of hours of research. Searchable and printable.

ACT Magazine, Hospitals & Development
S.J. Russell editor, 2004, 32 pp., 8.5x11", papercover, fully illustrated,  $3

Among the issues examined are public-private partnerships and the development pressures under which demolition occurs at historic hospitals.
    Specific sites featured:
        ~ CAMH at 1001 Queen Street West, including the asylum wall.
        ~ St. Joseph's Health Centre's Our Lady of Mercy building.
        ~ Riverdale Hospital (1962) at Bridgepoint Health Centre.

    CHESTNUT PARK,
    notes for a walk
    Edna Hudson, 2001
    16 pp., 7x8.5", papercover,
    b&w photos,  $2
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    416-947-1066.)

    A brief overview of the Rosedale Street.

THE PROVINCIAL ASYLUM IN TORONTO
Edna Hudson editor, 2000
270 pp., softcover, 6x9", 122 b&w photos, colour cover
$25

    On the 150th anniversary of its debut, the landmark asylum (demolished in 1975) is reconsidered. Its hard fall from grace began shortly after construction when the sophisticated architectural programme was overwhelmed and under-maintained and was finally blamed not only for functional shortcomings but also collateral failures of medical treatments.
    The investigation of the possibilities of designing and using a building as a therapeutic instrument is the central question around which a dozen contributors offer essays. According to John Bentley Mays in the National Post: "a useful lesson in how the meanings of medical architecture shift and slide over time ...with the darkenings and lightenings of medical knowledge about our frail human condition." Contributors include Pleasance Crawford, Cyril Greenland, Shirley Morriss, Douglas Richardson and John Sewell. Comprehensively illustrated with many rare period photos and illustrations.

    ACT Magazine,
    THE CONCOURSE BUILDING

     Keefer & Hudson editors, 1999
     20 pp., 8.5x11", papercover,
    fully illustrated, $2
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    416-947-1066.)

CONSERVATION IN CONTEXT
Exhibit Catalogue
Alec Keefer editor, 1998
20 pp., 7x8.5", softcover, illustrated, $5,
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THE ROMANESQUE HEAD OFFICE
Edna Hudson, 1997, 122 pp., softcover, 8.5x11",
122 b&w photos, colour cover,  $25
    A history of the Confederation Life Headquarters, an exuberant Romanesque/French Gothic skyscraper designed by Knox and Elliot in 1889. It remains today one of the most beautiful exteriors in Toronto. In the dark ages of the 1980s politics, planning and aesthetics collide as Ron Thom and Raymond Moriyama both attempt to integrate the building into a new development, eventually undertaken by Page and Steele. Comprehensively illustrated with new and archival photos, drawings, paintings, maps, plans, blueprints, elevations, charts, advertisements, and newspaper clippings. A tour de force of critical research which won a Heritage Toronto award for Ms. Hudson.

    ACT Magazine,
    UNION STATION

     Keefer & Hudson editors, 1997
     20 pp., 8.5x11", papercover,
     illustrated, $2.
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     416-947-1066.)

ACT Magazine,
MAIN STREETS RESTORATION

Susan Treiber & Anthony Lever editors, 1995
12 pp., 8.5x11", papercover, illustrated, $2.
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416-947-1066.)

BELLEVUE AVENUE: A STUDY
Edna Hudson, 1993, 40 pp., 8.5x11", paper cover, illustrated,  $5
    An architectural and social chronology of this (now) downtown Toronto street culled from many sources. Ms. Hudson offers details of the transition from settling landowner to Victorian subdivisions to modern city street, including such engineering details as the laying of the sewer lines. Modest homes were favored by the waves of Jewish and Portuguese immigrants. Larger homes were converted into institutional roles.

A STUDY OF RUSHOLME ROAD
TRAC board, 1991, 52 pp., 8.5x11", paper cover, fully illustrated, $5

    A West End Edwardian residential street is analyzed quantitatively to yield its defining characteristics. This study was commissioned by the resident's association to aid their preservation efforts. Fully illustrated.

TERRA COTTA: ARTFUL DECEIVERS
Alec Keefer, Patricia McHugh et al, 1990,
139 pp., 8.5x11", softcover, 184 b&w photos,
$15

    Profiles of several dozen selected terra cotta-faced buildings from across Ontario. These case studies examine both aesthetic and technological achievement in detail. A trove of large, legible archival and new photography, renderings and plans, guides the reader.

    This is a detailed record of a noteworthy downtown Toronto commercial block, suggesting that the block be spared from intrusive redevelopment. The buildings include not only Massey Hall, the Elgin and Wintergarden Theatres, former banks (and the former Heritage Toronto offices), but also the lesser-known buildings which join these together. Photography specially commissioned from architectural photographer Peter MacCallum.

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