Colborne Lodge

Colborne Lodge is an historic house museum located in an 1837 home in Toronto's High Park. John George Howard, an architect, engineer and prominent Toronto citizen, built this house, which became the property of the city following his death in 1890.

Photo: SimonP, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: High Park and Sunnyside Amusement Park.

High Park

Park

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High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. High Park is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a zoo. High Park is situated 690 metres north of Colborne Lodge.

Sunnyside Amusement Park

Park

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Sunnyside Amusement Park was a popular amusement park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that ran from 1922 to 1955, demolished in 1955 to make way for the Metro Toronto Gardiner Expressway. Sunnyside Amusement Park is situated 460 metres southeast of Colborne Lodge.

High Park Zoo

Zoo

Photo: Michael, CC BY 2.0.

High Park Zoo is situated 410 metres northwest of Colborne Lodge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sunnyside and Roncesvalles.

Sunnyside

Neighborhood

Photo: Peter Broster, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sunnyside is a lakefront district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It includes a beach and park area along Lake Ontario's Humber Bay, from west of Exhibition Place to the mouth of the Humber River.

Roncesvalles

Neighborhood

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Roncesvalles, also known as Roncesvalles Village or Roncy Village, is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centred on Roncesvalles Avenue, a north–south street leading from the intersection of King and Queen Streets to the south, north to Dundas Street West, a distance of roughly 1.7 kilometres.

Swansea

Neighborhood

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Swansea is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, bounded on the west by the Humber River, on the north by Bloor Street, on the east by High Park and on the south by Lake Ontario.

Colborne Lodge

Type: Tourist attraction
Description: historic house museum in Ontario, Canada
Categories: house and tourism
Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

43.64036° or 43° 38′ 25″ north

Longitude

-79.46° or 79° 27′ 36″ west

Open location code

87M2JGRR+42

OpenStreetMap ID

node 256351459

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q5141957

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In Other Languages

“Colborne Lodge” goes by many names.

French: “Colborne Lodge”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: High Park Children’s Garden and Lower Duck Pond.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Wind Oracle and Colborne Lodge Drive.

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