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Clay Tile House

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BUILDING INFORMATION

Name & Location:

Clay Tile House
20 Jerome Street
Toronto
High Park North

First Owner:

John Shelley Turner

Year Destroyed:

2018

OTHER IDENTIFICATION

Notes:

From BlogTO, see sources. "At 20 Jerome Street near Dundas West and Dupont, there's a house covered in weather-worn terracotta tile. Across the front, down the sides, and round the back hundreds of mismatched decorative reliefs make the building look like a displaced Asian temple. The house was built by J. Turner Sr., a west-end Toronto builder in 1905. Terracotta tile had been in vogue in the decades before Turner set to work, but around 1895 tastes started to change and the material went out of fashion, leaving Ontario producers with stockpiles of unwanted product."

The house was considered structurally unsound and demolished in 2018.

Status:

Demolished

Map:

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Companies:

The following companies are associated with this building

General contractor - John Shelley Turner

BUILDING DATA

Building Type:

Detached house

Current Use:

Residential

Heritage Status:

Listed

Sources:

Click to see 6 Source(s)

Terra Cotta Artful Deceivers
Author - Toronto Region Architectural Conservancy
Date - 1990
Page - 27
Notes - End of a Product Line, describes the history of this house as part of a few houses in Ontario that took advantage of low prices for slightly out of fashion terra cotta pieces to build. This book is available in our online Shop.
Toronto´s famous terracotta house is about to be demolished
Author - Lisa Cumming, BlogTO
Date - May 22, 2018
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Here´s what Toronto´s famous terra cotta house looks like now
Author - BlogTO Staff
Date - April 23, 2019
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Inventory of Heritage Properties
Author - City of Toronto
Date - January 22, 1979
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Update on 20 Jerome Street
Author - Gord Perks, City Councillor Parkdale-High Park
Date - 2018
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Why is this West Bend home covered in terracotta tiles?
Author - Chris Bateman, BlogTO
Date - March 13, 2014
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