Casa Loma
| Casa Loma | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Mansion; Established as museum in 1937 |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Address | 1 Austin Terrace Toronto, Ontario Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°40′41″N 79°24′34″W / 43.6781°N 79.4095°W |
| Current tenants | Liberty Entertainment Group (Since 2013) |
| Construction started | 1911 |
| Completed | 1914 |
| Cost | $3.5M |
| Client | Henry Pellatt |
| Owner | City of Toronto |
| Dimensions | |
| Other dimensions | Grounds: 343,253 sqft |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 7 floors |
| Floor area | 64,700 sqft |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | E. J. Lennox |
| Official name | Casa Loma |
| Type | Designated Part IV (Heritage Property) |
| Designated | 1987 |
Casa Loma (Spanish for Hill House) is a Gothic Revival style house and gardens in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now a museum and landmark. It was built as a residence for financier Sir Henry Mill Pellatt. Casa Loma was constructed from 1911 to 1914. The architect was E. J. Lennox, who designed several other city landmarks. Casa Loma sits at an elevation of 140 metres (460 ft) above sea level.
Due to its unique architectural character in Toronto, Casa Loma has been a popular filming location for movies and television. Casa Loma is a popular venue to hold wedding ceremony and rites. The historic place can be rented in the afternoon after the museum closes to public.
In 1903, financier Henry Pellatt purchased 25 lots from developers Kertland and Rolf. Pellatt commissioned architect E. J. Lennox to design Casa Loma with construction beginning in 1911, starting with the massive stables, potting shed and Hunting Lodge (a.k.a. coach-house) a few hundred feet north of the main building. The Hunting Lodge is a two-story 4,380-square-foot (407 m2) house with servants' quarters. As soon as the stable complex was completed, Sir Henry sold his summer house in Scarborough to his son and moved to the Hunting Lodge. The stables were used as a construction site for the castle (and also served as the quarters for the male servants), with some of the machinery still remaining in the rooms under the stables.
The house cost about $3.5 million and took 300 workers three years to build. Due to the start of World War I, construction was halted. At 98 rooms covering 64,700 square feet (6,011 m2), it was the largest private residence in Canada. Notable amenities included an elevator, an oven large enough to cook an ox, two vertical passages for pipe organs, a central vacuum, two secret passages in Pellatt's ground-floor office, a pool, and three bowling alleys in the basement (the last two were never completed).
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