I walk past Davisville Junior Public School fairly often…. or should I say, I used to walk past it.
I didn’t think about it too much until I heard that it was going to be demolished – or was it going to be saved? Maybe I should take some photos of it as apparently it has some architectural value, an early 1960’s Modernist building. Then, back in November, a construction fence appeared around the property. One of those metal wire temporary fences that you see all over the city. So much for saving the building.
Photos from November:
The building was also home to the Metropolitan Toronto School for the Deaf as well as Spectrum Alternative School.
below: Notice on the fence, permit to remove 21 trees. A new elementary school is being built on the site. In the meantime (for 2 years), Davisville Junior Public is being relocated to Vaughan Road in what was previously the Vaughan Road Academy. Originally, the plan was to build the new school on the property (there was a large playground) and then tear down the old (Globe & Mail Feb 2017)
below: I past by the site for the first time in a few months and discovered that most of the school is now demolished. Only a small portion by the front entrance remains and I suspect that that won’t be around for much longer.
as I walk Toronto 