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Dunn Cottage

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BUILDING INFORMATION
Name & Location:
Dunn Cottage
135A Berkeley Street
Toronto
Moss Park
Year Completed:
Pre-1858
OTHER IDENTIFICATION
Notes:
135A Berkeley Street is a 1-storey Regency Cottage — known as Dunn Cottage — located behind several buildings. It is virtually invisible from the street and surrounded by fences on several sides.

A building with the same footprint appears in William Somerville Boulton's 1858 Atlas of the City of Toronto and Vicinity, as well as potentially in Sir Sandford Fleming's 1851 Topographical Plan of the City of Toronto. The building also appears in the late 19th and early 20th century fire insurance plans, albeit some years it appears as a wooden building and some years as a brick one (accompanied by slight changes in its footprint and position within the lot). The footprint in Boulton's 1858 Atlas is particularly interesting when compared to present-day satellite imagery. 

 

For several decades — between the mid-1850s and the mid-1880s — the site was associated with the Dunn family. Daniel Dunn, Thomas Dunn, and William Dunn were residents as of 1860/1861. All three were blacksmiths as of 1860/1861, although by 1879/1880 William Dunn had opened a grocery shop a few buildings north near Queen Street East. 

(Research by Adam Wynne)
 
Status:
Completed
BUILDING DATA
Building Type:
Detached house
Main Style:
Regency   <--  More buildings in this style.
Sources:
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