Lewis Lukes House

It's getting harder to find old photos that fit with the season, so I thought I'd add some photos of supposedly unique Toronto building styles. One of the reasons I say these styles are supposedly unique is that outside Toronto this house would be considered a variety of Queen Anne Revival, the variation being the Romanesque ground floor. In Toronto, though, they're called Annex houses because the style started in a neighbourhood called the Annex. And this is the first one. It was built in 1887 and designed by E. J. Lennox, the leading Toronto architect of the day. He is best known for Old City Hall and Casa Loma.