Archive record from Might's Greater Toronto city directory, 1930.
The Robinson-Adamson House in Mississauga, a Regency cottage building in 1830. (Photo courtesy of Briantoronto).
BUILDING INFORMATION
Name & Location:
49 Third Street 49 Third Street Toronto New Toronto
Year Completed:
1929
OTHER IDENTIFICATION
Notes:
The town of New Toronto was founded in 1890 by a group of industrialists inspired to create a satellite centre for Toronto’s manufacturing industries by a recent visit to Rochester, New York. They purchased the land from the Government of Ontario, which had in turn bought it only a decade earlier from farmers who originally surveyed their fields in the early 19th century on Mississauga lands illegitimately included in the Toronto Purchase of 1787 (this claim was finally settled between the modern nation and the federal government in 2010).
The streets of New Toronto were drawn in a simple grid and named using spelled-out ordinal numbers. Different types of houses were built along them as the construction of public facilities increased in the early 20th century. The detached house at 49 Third Street was built in 1929 using many elements of Upper Canada’s Regency cottage style, including its steep hipped roof, central dormer window, and rectangular, symmetrical frontage (other "Regency Revival" houses built around the same time exist in areas of Western Toronto). The building’s original façade has been completely obscured by “Cape Cod”-style siding, masking its age.
