“1 Spadina Crescent”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The parcel of land now known as Spadina Crescent first appeared on maps of Toronto as early as 1835, originally named "Mansfield's Old Gardens"^[2] and then Crescent Garden.^[3] There was the intention for the city to turn it into a park after Dr. Baldwin's death, however the conditions for this were never met and his grandchildren sold the land in 1873 to the hon. J. McMurrich of the Presbyterian Church for $10,000.^[3]

The building was originally the home of Knox College, a theological college of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Knox College became affiliated with the University of Toronto in 1887, and in 1914 moved to its current location on the west side of King's College Circle. During World War I, the building became barracks, and shortly afterward the Spadina Military Hospital. For a period in 1918, Amelia Earhart worked as a nurses aide at the hospital. It remained a veterans hospital until 1943 when it was acquired by the University of Toronto's Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, which became one of Canada's main centers for the development and manufacture of pharmaceuticals. The building was in disrepair at this point and needed substantial renovations. It was also around this time that the basement was excavated.^[4] In the 1960s, it was proposed that this building be demolished to make way for the Spadina Expressway, which was never built. It became an academic building again in 1972 with the sale and relocation of the laboratories.

Until 2007, the building's location inside a roundabout made it inaccessible by foot without jaywalking; the issue was resolved with the installation of stop-lights on the east side of the circle. On 10 September 2009, Leah Kubik fell to her death from the third floor roof while on a first date.^[7]

The building was home to the Ontario division of the Eye Bank of Canada, and an alternative student weekly newspaper, The Newspaper which moved because of renovations.

On December 4, 2015, the Toronto Star published a video by Christopher Hume, its architecture critic, celebrating the building's history, and the University's plan to renovate, update and expand the building.

The renovated building, designed by Nader Tehrani and Katherine Faulkner and including a glass addition to the north side, was opened in 2017.^[8]

References

1. ^https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/in-pictures-turning-one-spadina-into-a-playground-of-urban-ideas/article12467047/
2. ^{{cite book|last=McHugh|first=Patricia|title=Toronto Architecture – A City Guide,|origyear=1985 |year=1989|publisher=McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Canadian Publishers.|pages=Page 119}}
3. ^¹{{cite book|last=Arthur|first=Eric|title=Toronto – No Mean City|origyear=1964 |year=1968|publisher=University of Toronto Press|page=153}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Bolan | first=Tim | title=Structures, Show #9 , "1 Spadina Crescent. | year=2003 | publisher=Rogers Television}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmcmllbmRzb2ZkYXZpZGJ1bGxlcnxneDozZjZlODIxMTU4NTY5OWY3|title=Portrait of a Life Cut Short}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Unsolved-Crimes International|url=http://www.unsolved-crimes.com/buller.html|work=|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5io4xjDRK?url=http://www.unsolved-crimes.com/buller.html|archivedate=2009-08-05|deadurl=yes|accessdate=2009-08-02|df=}}
7. ^{{cite web|title='Ghost hunter' falls to her death|url=http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/09/10/ghost-hunter-falls-to-her-death.aspx|work=|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5jjoK3crS?url=http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/09/10/ghost-hunter-falls-to-her-death.aspx|archivedate=2009-09-12|date=2009-09-10|deadurl=yes|accessdate=2009-09-10|df=}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/news/2017/09/09/new-daniels-building-one-spadina-crescent|title=New Daniels Building at One Spadina Crescent|last=|first=|date=|website=John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design|access-date=}}

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