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Perhaps inadvertently, although this seems unlikely, the Levack House is a stylistic twin to the Matthews House at 89 St. George Street. Built a year apart, the former is designed in the same hybrid Annex style comprising both Queen Anne Revival and Romanesque Revival elements. One could argue that the Levack House displays a greater quantity of Richardsonian Romanesque character than the Matthews House, owing to its first-floor rusticated stone façade and large round-headed entrance archway. They share an abundance of terra cotta molding and nearly identical decentred, pointed turrets which instantly invoke the signature Queen Anne busy roofline.
William Levack was the founder of Union Stockyards. His house was designed by Francis Riley Heakes, who also designed a set of buildings for Levack at 88-94 Ossington Avenue known as the "Levack Block."
