Throwback Thursday

 March 2025 - Toronto ON

Since I am doing Throwback Thursday, I thought I would add labels to help anyone who may want to visit Toronto and/or Ontario!

Touring Toronto

Visiting Ontario - will include the county to make it easier to plan a visit.

Visiting PROVINCE

Visiting Canada

Spadina House my post when I visited in 2019.

Spadina Museum offers a glimpse of Toronto during the 1900-1930 period through the lens of the Austin family. The museum highlights the effects of transformative events on the Austins such as the First World War, the Great Depression, and societal changes in Canada. Spadina Museum opened in 1984 and completed an extensive interior restoration in 2010. Spadina’s artifacts feature the family’s contributions to the financial, business, and cultural development of Toronto through an intact collection and archival holdings, music, art, and decorative arts.

The site includes six structures: a three-storey large house built in 1866 and enlarged several times up until 1912/1913; a two-storey garage and chauffer’s residence built in 1909; a stable/gardener’s cottage circa 1850; and a greenhouse built in 1913.

Address: 285 Spadina Rd, Toronto, ON M5R 2V5

Opened: 1984

Construction started: 1866

Architect: James Austin

Owners: Ontario Heritage Trust, Municipal government of Toronto

Phone: (416) 392-6910

Current tenants: Historic house museum; (since 1984)

Admission as of March 2025

Visiting the historic house is by guided tour only. See tour schedule below. General admission is free. Some exhibitions and events may carry a separate charge where noted.

Hours of Operation

Historic House

Wednesday to Sunday: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Garden and Grounds

Daily: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Free Guided Tours

Wednesday to Friday: 12:15 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday: 11:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3 p.m.