File 2009.002.1132 - Garden Court Apartments

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Garden Court Apartments

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2009.002.1132

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  • [July] 1958 (Creation)
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    Kettle, John

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5 photographs : b&w

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John Kettle was a consultant and writer specializing in studies of the future. He has worked in newspapers and business publications starting in 1949. He has acted as consultant to companies, businesses, and governments including The Hudson Institute, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, and The United Nations Environment Program. He was authored books including "Footnotes on the Future" and "Hindsight on the Future".

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Exterior photographs of an art-deco low-rise apartment building in a manicured landscape, with ivy-covered cottages behind the main gate. Completed around 1939-41, this apartment complex covers a 5.5-acre site located in the Leaside nieghbourhood of Toronto at 1477 Bayview Avenue. The apartment buildings are grouped around a large, central courtyard, landscaped by Dunington-Grubb and Stensson. The building plans eliminated long corridors by having separate entrances and stairways serving four to six apartments, and each apartment extends from one side of the building to the other. Architectural drawings for The Garden Court Apartments are in the Page and Steele Collection at the Archives of Ontario. Five original drawings for the landscape survive in the Dunington-Grubb/Stensson Collection at the University of Guelph.

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Handwritten in red ink on verso: C/A July 58, HT/100. In blue ink: Garden Court Apts., Page & Steele, July 1958.

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"Garden Court Apartments, Toronto (1939-1941)." The Canadian Architect July 1958: 24-26.

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