The Beaches - Landmarks

Landmarks

The Beaches contains a number of historic buildings that are either designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, or listed in the City of Toronto's inventory of heritage buildings, including:

• 18–36 Wineva Avenue, built in 1929 (west side and even numbers only);
• the Bank of Toronto building, 1958 Queen Street East, now the "Lion on the Beach" bar, built in 1950;
• the Beach Hebrew Institute, 109 Kenilworth Avenue, built in 1920;
• Beaches Branch of the Toronto Public Library, one of four original Carnegie Libraries and identical to two others (one in Northern Toronto at Wychwood, one in Western Toronto at High Park), 2161 Queen Street East, originally built in 1916, revamped in 1980 and 2005;
• the Dominion Bank building, at Queen and Lee streets, built in 1911;
• the Dr. William D. Young Memorial, located in Kew Gardens, erected in 1920 and partly designed by Ivor Lewis;
• the Fox Theatre on Queen St. at Beech Ave, built in 1914, which is North America's oldest continuously operated movie theatre;
• Glenn Gould's family home, 32 Southwood Drive;
• The Goof – officially the Garden Gate Restaurant, a well-known Canadian Chinese restaurant in the Beaches since 1952, located at 2379 Queen Street East.
• the Kew Beach Firehall No. 17, still in use today as a working firehall (now as Toronto Fire Services Station 227), built in 1905;
• the Kew Williams House, 30 Lee Avenue, aka "the Gardener's Cottage," built in 1901–1902;
• the Leuty Lifeguard Station, foot of Leuty Avenue, built in 1920;
• Inglenook, at 81 Waverley Road;
• Whitelock's Grocery Store, now Whitlock's Restaurant, built between 1906–1908; and
• George Davis House on Kingswood Road.