The Grange was the first home of the Art Museum of Toronto (later to become the Art Gallery of Ontario) and rests today as a historic Georgian manor in downtown Toronto, Canada. The structure was built in 1817 for D’Arcy Boulton Jr. (1785-1846), a member of the powerful Boulton family.
When D’Arcy Boulton’s eldest son and Toronto mayor William Henry Boulton married Harriet Dixon, the house was put in her name in what was known as a marriage settlement. After William’s death she remarried the prominent scholar Goldwin Smith, and the couple lived in The Grange for the rest of their lives. It was Harriet who left The Grange to become the Art Museum of Toronto and after Goldwin Smith’s death in 1910 and Hariette’s death in 1909, the building became the new home of the gallery. Part of The Grange also served as a home of the Ontario College of Art & Design.
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