1911 Competition for Ontario Government House

Illustrations and descriptions outlining features of preliminary studies submitted by some of the eleven competing entrants for new Lieutenant-Governor’s Residence, Toronto. However, the winning proposal was never built because the Provincial Architect, Francis R. Heakes, reported that all of the entries were too costly. The proposed site was on Bloor Street East, but as that area was becoming commercial, the province moved the site to a undeveloped land in Toronto’s Rosedale neighbourhood where a house was built some years later, to a design by Francis R. Heakes. Called Chorley Park, it was completed by 1915 and demolished in 1960.