These were around the Queen and Broadview area too. I like the big half circle windows on some of them.
I was in the bookstore in the Eatons Centre and came across a beat up book about architecture. It was geared for the hobbyist who wanted to learn the proper terms for structures and styles. I would have liked to get that book but, just not the right time to be buying more books. At least the photos are free.
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I'm no architect, but I think those half-circles are called arches, as in arched windows, but I could be wrong. That's just what I call them. I always love to see them. To me it denotes a more elegant era.
Nowadays they sell these arched window frames in PVC and they look like shit, especially if you see them (as I did just today) on an old French-Canadian fieldstone house. Bah! The nouveau-riche have no idea.
I don't get over that way much. I'm a west end girl.
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