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The former home of the Sweetheart of America, dilapidated and boarded up for years, may, it is reported, be purchased by the screen star and turned in(...)
The former home of the Sweetheart of America, dilapidated and boarded up for years, may, it is reported, be purchased by the screen star and turned in(...)

The former home of the Sweetheart of America, dilapidated and boarded up for years, may, it is reported, be purchased by the screen star and turned in(...)

Date8/16/1938
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Original Toronto Star caption: The former home of the Sweetheart of America, dilapidated and boarded up for years, may, it is reported, be purchased by the screen star and turned into a tearoom, the proceeds of which would be devoted to charity. It is located on the east side of University Ave., south of Dundas. [Incomplete]
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0073751F
Abandoned home: A boarded-up house, abandoned when chemical contamination turned Love Canal into a no-man's-land two years ago, awaits the all-clear that could bring it back to life
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Neglected: The Wellesley St. E. home of famed artist Paul Kane (inset) has been boarded up for 10 years, and looks even worse since a fire in December(...)
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Sweethearts for 70 years, Alan and Gertrude Lewis celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary recently at Oakridge Villa nursing home, at 2045 Finch Ave(...)
Sweethearts for 70 years, Alan and Gertrude Lewis celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary recently at Oakridge Villa nursing home, at 2045 Finch Ave(...)
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Former home of Late J K Macdonald, 33 Charles St purchased for $50,000 by Children Aid Society
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9/17/1928
Sketch of an irregular lot of land, prayed for by the Brewer at York, adjoining to a lot, purchased for the Brewery, by which the road will be turned through the Pound Lot,
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This photograph, snapped through a crack in the fence, shows the dilapidated condition into which the historic old buildings of Fort York have fallen
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Star attraction Central Technical School's 55th annual exhibition, this helicopter, purchased from Cuba for aircraft mechanics course, gets touch up t(...)
Star attraction Central Technical School's 55th annual exhibition, this helicopter, purchased from Cuba for aircraft mechanics course, gets touch up t(...)
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Home sweet home, Premier David Peterson and his wife Shelley purchased this 60-year-old, gray stone house in Rosedale
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1/9/1988
Close call: Arthur Pike, a former paper boy who turns 90 today, holds a copy of the Toronto Daily Star issue that reported his near-fatal accident in 1913
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Another star who may come back to the screen is Helen Hayes and a deal is said pending to star her in the film version of her next play
Another star who may come back to the screen is Helen Hayes and a deal is said pending to star her in the film version of her next play
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