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Terry Murray: Howard Dennison Chapman, RIP

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Howard Dennison Chapman, RIP. I read the sad news in yesterday's Globe and Mail. That architect Howard Dennison Chapman died. He was 96. Chapman was the son of Alfred H. Chapman, the Toronto architect behind the Royal Ontario Museum's entrance on Queen's Park, the Princes Gates at the Canadian National Exhibition, the Toronto Hydro Building and others. Among his other works was the "half-round" Riverdale Hospital. 10070;Come to...

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Terry Murray: December 2013

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Friday, December 20, 2013. Italian priest and self-described "angelologist" Father Renzo Lavatori told a conference on angelic art hosted by the Fondazione Archivio Storico and held in the Vatican-owned Palazzo della Cancelleria that angels don't have wings. In fact, he said, according to a story in Britain's The Independent. That angels don't even have a recognizable human form - that they're more like shards of light. Posted by Terry Murray. 10070;"Tor...

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Terry Murray: December 2011

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Saturday, December 31, 2011. As our snow lay on the ground indecisively while the heavens alternately rained and snowed (and sometimes sleeted, or freezing-rained), this snowman kept hanging around (suspended from a tree) in front of a North Toronto house. Posted by Terry Murray. Friday, December 23, 2011. Alas The Trail of Lights. Posted by Terry Murray. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Looking out my back door. This is not the first time. Torified. "S...

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Terry Murray: The lions of March (part 1)

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Saturday, March 1, 2014. The lions of March (part 1). March has arrived. In Toronto, there are no alerts or warnings or red notifications on the Weather Network. But the forecast is for more wintry weather for the foreseeable future. So it's as true as ever this year that March comes in like a lion (and — one can only hope this year — will go out like a lamb). To mark the start of March, I thought I'd post some of Toronto's architectural lions:. Here's a...

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Terry Murray: February 2012

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Posted by Terry Murray. Monday, February 20, 2012. More decorated Toronto schools. Harbord Collegiate Institute and Jarvis C.I., both by school-board architect C. E. Cyril Dyson in the 1920s and 1930s, have figures so similar in style that they must have been designed by the same person. Where it is more apparent that the spheres are globes and not sport balls.). Posted by Terry Murray. Labels: C.E.C. Dyson. The original sch...

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Terry Murray: Site has moved

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Wednesday, July 16, 2014. This site has moved to terrymurray.org. And specifically, to terrymurray.org/blog. Come on over and see what's new! Posted by Terry Murray. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Toronto, ON, Canada. Terry Murray has been studying architectural sculpture in Toronto and anywhere else she travels for more than 20 years. View my complete profile. 10070;Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto (Anansi, 2006). What am I reading?

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Terry Murray: May 2012

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Monday, May 28, 2012. Many thanks to Doors Open Toronto and. All the enthusiastic gargoyle hunters who came out for the Faces on Places walking tours! You have motivated me to update and maintain this blog after a lapse (due to the crush of work at my day job). Stay tuned - new posts coming soon! Promo'd the walks on Friday but they don't seem to have archived the interview (or not yet). Posted by Terry Murray. Labels: Doors Open Toronto. 8226; What I Sa...

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Terry Murray: October 2011

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Saturday, October 29, 2011. The mysterious, magical Farcroft. The Farcroft is adorned with about a dozen grotesques, including these characters:. There's more to doing research than Google searches and finding what's on the Internet, but from Toronto, that's the only way I'm able to research a Chicago building. Here's what I've turned up about the Farcroft:. A Chicago Tribune article from February 1928 — admittedly, before the building had even beg...

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Terry Murray: Faces *Around* Places?

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Sunday, February 16, 2014. One of the last times I was in San Francisco, I was walking around in the area of City Hall and the Opera, and noticed this unusual doorway. Both restaurants have closed. I'm not sure when Vivande Ristorante died, but Vivande Porta Via fell victim. To the recession at the end of 2009 — as well as to Middione's loss of his senses of smell and taste as a result of a car crash in 2007. But in a 2011 blog post. I'll leave it to you...

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Terry Murray: March 2014

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Journalist, writer, photographer, gargoyle hunter. Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Howard Dennison Chapman, RIP. I read the sad news in yesterday's Globe and Mail. That architect Howard Dennison Chapman died. He was 96. Chapman was the son of Alfred H. Chapman, the Toronto architect behind the Royal Ontario Museum's entrance on Queen's Park, the Princes Gates at the Canadian National Exhibition, the Toronto Hydro Building and others. Among his other works was the "half-round" Riverdale Hospital. John grew up ...