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Toronto Edwardian

Frank Darling, Architect of Canada's Imperial Age

Winterton, David E.; McClelland, Michael

McGill-Queen's University Press

02/2026

384

Dura

Inglês

9780228026556

15 a 20 dias

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Foreword xi
MICHAEL McCLELLAND

Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Abbreviations xxv

Introduction
Edwardian Toronto; Edwardian Architecture 3

Part 1 Context 23

1 Frank Darling, Canadian Architect 25

2 Hogtown Shakes Off the Mud
Toronto's Early Twentieth-Century Civic Imaginary 54

3 Patrons of the Grand Manner
Imperialists, Plutocrats, and Their Architect, Frank Darling 71

Part 2 Buildings 84

4 Residential Architecture
Houses for Patrons and Clubhouses for Leisure 86

5 Education and Edification
Hospitals, the University of Toronto, and Other Institutional Work 125

6 Temples of Commerce
The Bank Commissions 158

7 Commercial Building Commissions 203

8 "Where shall the limit be?"
Darling & Pearson's Tall Building Commissions 218

9 Twilight of Canadian Gothic
Darling's Last Work for Trinity College 245

Epilogue
The Architectural Legacy of Frank Darling and Darling & Pearson 257

APPENDIX 1
Catalogue Raisonne: Chronological List of Work (from the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada) 265

APPENDIX 2
Partners and Staff 285

APPENDIX 3
Patrons 295

APPENDIX 4
Architectural Glossary 299

Figures 303
Notes 313
Bibliography 325
Index 331
Winnipeg architecture;Canadian;bank;banking halls;Edwardian Baroque;Grand Manner;early skyscrapers;Toronto plutocrats;Canadian imperialism;William Dendy;Victorian;Ecclesiological Society;Club;residential;hospital;monumental;University Toronto;20th century urbanism;Ontario;Gilded Age;Canadian architects;commercial