Located at the southwest corner of Pacific Avenue and Annette Street in the Junction, 336 Pacific Avenue was designed in 1888 by local Junction architect Abraham B. Pipher working on commission for Bernard Kerr.
In September 2022, the owners of 336 Pacific Avenue applied to demolish the house and replace it with a 4-unit apartment building.
about the house
PIPHER, Abraham B. (1849-1930) was first active in the area of Stouffville, north of Toronto, Ont. where he was recorded as “the carpenter” who built (and likely designed) the impressive 2 storey brick house still standing at 30 Albert Street in that town in 1884 (inf. Stouffville Historical Society, Walking Tour No. 8, 1998). By 1888 he had moved south to Toronto, where he was active in the village of West Toronto Junction, which was then centered around the intersection of the present Keele Street and Dundas Street West in Toronto, Ont. A brief biography of Pipher appeared in 1891, and noted that ” For the past four years Mr. A.B. Phipher has made his headquarters at Toronto Junction, and during that time has prepared plans for, and superintended the construction of some of the best buildings in the town. For upwards of 18 years Mr. A.B. Pipher has been a contractor and architect” (Saturday Globe [Toronto], 25 July 1891, 4).
