The Kendal Ave entrance to the Spadina subway station is located in this 19th century house which has been restored and renovated to provide subway entrance on the main floor and community space for rent upstairs. When the station was built in 1978 the house was put on tracks and wheeled back from its foundation while the work was done to connect the entrance to the station and then the house was returned to its original site. Nice way of fitting into the neighbourhood!
I've never seen something like that!
ReplyDeleteLove this entrance, old and modern can exist in the same place.
I like it!
ReplyDeleteI had to look twice..
ReplyDeleteIt easily could have been somewhere in Holland!
Nice restoration job!
What an amazing feat of engineering it is to move a brick building!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the farsighted folks who recognized the quality of the building and how it would enhance the subway entrance and found a way!
ReplyDeleteI like it too!
ReplyDeleteIt's very cute and quaint! I'll have to visit it sometime.
ReplyDeleteHope your subway is more reliable than ours
ReplyDeleteHow wonder!!
ReplyDeletethey embedded the house to the subway!
good solution!
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That's an interesting bit of history! I didn't know the building had been removed and then put back.
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