This walk began at Yonge and St Clair.

It was a sunny morning with some clouds in the sky. I wanted to start my walk early, as the forecast called for rain in the late morning/early afternoon. I always see things to photograph while in a car going along Davenport and up Avenue, so I wanted to walk down from St Clair West and take my time. I started my walk at Yonge and St. Clair on a sunny morning with some clouds in the sky. I wanted to begin early because there was a forecast for rain later in the morning or early afternoon. While driving along Davenport and up Avenue, I always notice things I'd like to photograph, so I decided to walk down from St. Clair West and take my time.

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The Claridge Apartments @ 1 Clarendon Avenue

The Claridge Apartments have design value as an excellent example of a 1920s apartment house with exterior decoration that mixes the round-arched motifs associated with Romanesque Revival Design with embellishments described as Venetian Gothic. In Toronto, the construction of luxury apartment buildings reached its zenith in the 1920s before the onset of the Great Depression. One of the first residential buildings in Toronto constructed with concrete, the Claridge Apartments, was also noted for the attention to detail that extended from the exterior to the entrance lobby, which was designed by Group of Seven artist J. E. H. MacDonald.

The Claridge has been described as ''the queen of Toronto apartment buildings'' and its lobby as ''the most beautiful in the city'' (Dendy and Kilbourn, Toronto Observed, 1986, 243).

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