Primrose Club Building (Faculty Club) 1920

Primrose Club

There are two plaques about this club.
Both can be seen on this page.

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2011

A 2010 Heritage Toronto plaque is located here at 41 Willcocks Street on the south side between Spadina Avenue and Huron Street. This is what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.661313 -79.400570

Architects Benjamin Brown and Arthur W. McConnell designed this building for the Primrose Club, an elite Jewish organization that provided its members with a private social space. Retaining elements of an 1890 residence on the site, the Georgian Revival-style building features an elegant lounge, dining room, and ballroom that placed it among the city's most prestigious clubs. In 1959, the University of Toronto acquired the building for its new Faculty Club, which opened the following year with a membership of faculty and senior administrators. The Faculty Club has since evolved into a broader social centre for the University community.

Photo by the City of Toronto - Posted September, 2011

Photo and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted September, 2011

Attached to this eastbound St. Clair Avenue West transit shelter at Russell Hill Road is this City of Toronto plaque. Here's what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.685377 -79.407519

Founded in 1907, the Primrose Club was originally called the Cosmopolitan Club. This was a private club for Jewish professionals where the activities were exclusively social in nature offering a meeting place to fraternize with other members of the community.
The original location of The Primrose Club was on Beverley Street, from there it moved to a luxurious building on Willcocks Street with a ballroom and an oak-paneled billiard room. The Willcocks Street building was eventually expropriated by the University of Toronto and became its Faculty Club.
In 1959, The Primrose Club retained the architectural firm of Kaplan and Sprachman to build a modern structure next to Winston Churchill Park. It had distinctive windows that gave a panoramic view, and included a sauna and sleeping facilities.
In 1997, the building was demolished and replaced with a town house development.

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