Walking across Toronto - Spadina Avenue

Spadina Avenue! Well known by the song 'Spadina Bus' of course, but also a very wide avenue and passing through the old garment district, Chinatown, and past Casa Loma. (Technically, it is Spadina Road from Eglinton Avenue down to Bloor Street, then Spadina Avenue south of there.)

A bit rainy and definitely overcast. Walked end-to-end from Eglinton down to the lake - so mostly downhill this time, as opposed to my walks on Yonge Street and Avenue Road 😀.

Click on any picture to see a big version! Also part of this map.

North end of Spadina at Eglinton (looking NW).

Very nice houses along the north part of Spadina.

Looking south at Lonsdale Road.

Forest Hill Jewish Centre.

Just found this building to be very interesting looking, modernist, and with a little strange look for balconies. Tower Hill East - just south of St Clair.
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Looking NE from Spadina to the reservoir just south of St Clair. Also known as Sir Winston Churchill Park.

Sir Winston Churchill Park looking SE to a walking trail.

Another nice house.

Though some homes need some work.

Spadina House/Museum. A very large house, but perhaps not as impressive as its neighbour.

Just around the corner, this slightly larger than normal home. It's so impressive as you come down Spadina and turn the corner to see Casa Loma!

Casa Loma - Front view

Casa Loma - Back View

Looking down into the back gardens of Casa Loma

Directly north of Casa Loma - the Casa Loma stables. There's an underground tunnel connecting them with Casa Loma!

SW corner across from Casa Loma is a George Brown College campus

These townhouses (directly south of Casa Loma) were built just before the crash of '88 and later dropped to 1/2 of their original amount. (Now they're probably 3 times their original amount!)

Stairs up to the Casa Loma gardens

Typical Spadina homes just north of Bloor St.

The back of the Madison pub (over 1 block). Nice place for a drink and convenient for getting to from UofT.

Looking south on Spadina at Bloor and one of the newer long streetcars.

UofT's athletic centre at Harbord Street.

The (new) back of what was originally Knox College just north of College. This is located on an 'island' (Spadina Crescent) in the middle of Spadina Avenue.

The front of Knox College at 1 Spadina Crescent - now the John Daniels Faculty of Architecture.

NE Corner of Spadina and College (current). See also next pic!

NE Corner of Spadina and College a few years back. Once the 'Broadway Tabernacle Church', then razed and this building was built. 

The 'El Mo'. Drop in to watch The Stones do a set! 😯 They were there in 1977. I saw a few groups there - either upstairs or in the basement venue.

Spadina looking north towards Knox College. Dedicated streetcar lanes in the middle of Spadina.

Cat on a chair on a pole

Dr. Sun Yat Sen

Typical alley between buildings off Spadina

Originally this building contained the Devaney Brothers Dry Goods store. And various other tenants including the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows

Neat warehouse building with some neo-gothic touches. Taylor on History has some info on it - the Fashion Building

Looking south on Spadina at King

Clarence Square Park. Alexander Dunn, Canada's first recipient of the Victoria Cross was born just north of here (just south of King)

Front and Spadina looking west

View of (part of) the CN Tower and Skydome (oops, Rogers Centre)

Cool sculpture - 'Rosa Nautica'

And finally, the far south end of Spadina at Lake Ontario. Though you *can* go a little further south on the pier…

...so I did. Looking north from the end of the pier.