page_title: F. B. Fetherstonhaugh
section_title: Lynne Lodge: Fetherstonhaugh's Mimico estate
hierarchical_section_title: F. B. Fetherstonhaugh / Biography / Lynne Lodge: Fetherstonhaugh's Mimico estate
caption_attribution_description: English: Lynne Lodge, residence of Frederick B Fetherstonhaugh in Mimico, Ontario (1895). Detail of entrance. Designed by Henry Sproatt.
context_page_description: Frederick Barnard Fetherstonhaugh QC was a Canadian patent lawyer and agent who founded the patent agency Fetherstonhaugh & Co. He was a prominent citizen of Toronto, Ontario and was widely recognized for his expertise in patent law. He was also the owner of one of the first electric cars in Canada.
context_section_description: Buoyed by the success of his patent business, Fetherstonhaugh commissioned a lavish residence for himself in 1899 on a large plot of lake shore property in Mimico (near the intersection of Lake Shore Boulevard and Royal York Road today) just outside the Toronto city limits at the time. He was one of the first to move into what would eventually become a residential suburb while commuting regularly to Downtown Toronto for work.
  The primary residence he built was named "Lynne Lodge", after his mother's family home in Ireland. It had a view of Lake Ontario but was close to the streetcar line running along Lake Shore Blvd at the time. Lynne Lodge was designed by Henry Sproatt, a prominent 20th century Canadian architect. It was built in a Queen Anne revival style, and it is believed that the building was designed during Sproatt's "independent period", completed before he began a partnership with Ernest Rolph in 1901.
  Additions were made over the years to the residence, including a stable (later converted to a gardener's cottage) and a boat house. Around 1910, a stone guest house was built on a point of land on the Mimico property known as "Thunder Head", which jutted out into Lake Ontario at the foot of Royal York Road. The guest house was named "The Towers" for its architectural features resembling a castle. The Towers were used by his wife for painting, and later for their son James after his return from World War I. In the 1930s, the musician Horace Lapp lived in The Towers as a tenant for a period of time before moving into the boat house, to which he added a second floor with Fetherstonhaugh's permission.
  After Fetherstonhaugh's death in 1945, Lynne Lodge was sold to a series of developers, serving a short stint as the Lynne Arms Italian Village restaurant before it was demolished in 1957 to make room for an apartment building. The Towers and the boat house were also later demolished, though parts of the walls can still be seen. The gardener's cottage (at 2669-2673 Lake Shore Blvd W) remains the only surviving part of the Fetherstonhaugh estate, and was designated as a Heritage Property by the City of Toronto in 2011.
caption: Lynne Lodge, residence of Frederick B Fetherstonhaugh in Mimico, Ontario (1895). Detail of entrance. Designed by Henry Sproatt.
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