Built Heritage News

Architect and television host Angus Skene leads a two hour walking tour of the Jarvis Stret neighbourhood. Tour runs rain or shine. Cost is $15 in advance and $20 on the day. For more info about advance payment and this and upcoming tours email Angus at architourscanada@gmail.com.

From Issue No. 128 | October 13, 2008

For those who like their glory faded there’s no better place to look than the neighbourhood on and around Jarvis street. Dusty mansions and defiant old churches fill the streets around Allen Gardens - a nineteenth century collection of glass and exotic plants that would make Charles Darwin proud. Follow Angus as he shows how seeds planted by a few early families grew into one of the City’s best known and most forgotten neighbourhoods.