Colborne Lodge
How to find us:
- Street
- Colborne Lodge Drive
- Zip, City
- M6R 2Z3 Toronto
- Country
- Canada
- Phone
- 416-392-6916
- Fax
- 416-392-0375
- Web
- http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=5e5c2271635af310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
- clodge@toronto.ca
Admission charges
Adults: $6.19Seniors: $3.54Youths: $3.54Children: $2.65
Adults: $6.19Seniors: $3.54Youths: $3.54Children: $2.65
Description
Colborne Lodge is a rare North American example of a Regency picturesque building with a wide veranda opening to the garden and the park. The front door is on the west side of the building. At the heart of the structure is a tall three-part chimney that provided heat for the house. The interior remains decorated in a mid-19th-century style. More common in Britain, this style of architecture was used for buildings in natural settings and was designed to complement, not dominate, the natural surroundings. The cottage is a graceful monument to John and Jemima Howard, the couple who founded High Park. John Howard, one of Toronto's first architects, as well as a City engineer and surveyor, built Colborne Lodge in 1837.