John FitzGerald's photos with the keyword: ontario gothic

Ontario Gothic houses with bay windows. For more about Ontario Gothic houses, click the PiP at top left. I take it that's a painting of a streetcar you can see in the window of Tangle Gallery (PiP centre right). There are no streetcars on this street (Harbord) and no sidestreet there for one to be coming down,

If you visit Southern Ontario you will see many Ontario Gothic houses like this one. Most are single-storey cottages with a window each side of the central door and a gable above. This is a grander version, and there are grander ones yet. I have read that the gable was in part intended to keep snow from falling on the doorstep; in these days of insulation it also serves to increase the area of the roof and lessen the strain from snow. The style takes its name from a 19th-century style book.