High Park Branch was the second of three libraries that the Toronto
Public Library built with a $50,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation
of New York. Chief Librarian George Locke worked with Eden Smith
& Sons “to reproduce some of that Collegiate Grammar School
architecture of the time of Edward VIth, and adapted to modern requirements.”
High Park Branch opened on October 31, 1916. High Park, Wychwood
and Beaches libraries were originally identical, but all have been
renovated and are no longer the same.
Major alterations
1979 Renovation and addition by Moffat, Moffat & Kinoshita,
Architects and Planners; reopened March.
1990 Renovation by Joseph Bogdan, Architect. Closed November 12
- November 9, 1991.
Heritage status
1979 Listed on Inventory of Heritage Properties, adopted by Toronto
City Council, June 11.
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