Location: Playter Crescent at Playter Blvd.
Date photo taken: 4 December 2017
Image 9 in the Remnants Series
This house, tucked behind its own stone wall and surrounded by mature trees, is in the heart of the neighbourhood north and east of Broadview and Danforth known as Playter Estates. Captain George Playter was a United Empire Loyalist who settled in York in 1793 on a large tract of land which stretched across the Don Valley. This house was built on part of that land in the early 1870s by John Lea Playter, a great grandson of Captain Playter. Originally a dairy farm with market garden, the city soon began to encroach on the property and the family subdivided the land in the early 1900s. This house remained in the Playter family until 2006. After the sale the house underwent massive renovation and while the look of the house has changed, if you look closely you can still see the hallmarks of the traditional Ontario farmhouse.
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