Location:

1 Weatherell Street is located at the southwest corner of Armadale Avenue and Weatherell Street — one block north of the Bloor Danforth Highway (King’s Highway # 5 est. in 1920 completed 1925) and one block north of the Bloor Danforth Streetcar end-of-line Jane Street loop Aug. 1925.

1 Weatherell Street is constructed of red Brick in the Arts and Craft style with custom eavestrough and downspout detail from Pressed Metals of Canada. 1 Weatherell Street contains leaded glass windows with wooden shutters, half- timbered stuccoed north and south gables with corbeled roof overhang. The arched brick porch is inset for the front entry door which faces a wooden porch rail, the entry steps from the west side. There is a buttress extension of the east wall where it adjoins the rear wall shielding rear entry door, beside the attached garage which has two paneled wooden doors each with four vertical lites.

Located on a sand slope, 1 Weatherell is architecturally unique with many individualized features of strong engineering as well as aesthetic value and worthy of designation under part four of the OHA.

Architect — Henry Simpson: 

Henry Simpson built this small house for himself in 1923/1924 and resided there until his death in 1926.

Henry Simpson was the architect for the Metalic Roofing Co. of Canada factory  Cor. King & Dufferin, 1895/96, demolished 1982, and  Showroom 1896 , relocated to Atlantic Ave. in 1985, (C A B viii Dec. 1895, illus., Canadian Engineer, iii March 1896, 307-8 illus. & descript., Toronto Architecture Eighteen Club Catalogue 1902, 107 illus.

Henry Simpson  was the architect for The Victoria Industrial School for Boys Lakeshore Boulevard West, Mimico, New Classrooms and Assembly Hall 1891, Dining Hall and office building , 1892, reconstruction after a fire, 1896, (C A B iv, March 1891 illus., Globe (Toronto) 1^st June 1891,2 descrip. C R iii 9 July, 1892, 1.t.c. xvii 21 March 1906, 5). 

It is not merely a late example of the work of one of Canada’s most influential, innovative architects bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is also directly associated with him, since Henry Simpson built this home for himself, passing the last years of his life there. 

For more information on Henry Simpson, please see his entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada — 1800-1950: http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/1306

Toronto City Directories:

1924-1928: Henry Simpson 

1929: Harold W. Northerer 

1930: Absent

1931: Charles McCurdy

1932: Vacant

1933: John Forbes

1934: Absent 

1935: John J. Brydges 

1936-1940: Edward J. Maxted

1941-1951: David G. Forsyth

1951, 1962: Robert Wallace (RO7-8433)

1981: Isabella Wallace

1985/1986: Robert T. Wallace

Miss Wallace is the current (2021) owner, having inherited the house from her parents.

(Research by Madeleine McDowell) 

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