Wilmot D. Matthews House

Completed in 1891, for Wilmot Deloui Matthews (1850-1919), the former President of the Toronto Board of Trade who was known as the "Barley King of Canada" though his business interests covered several sectors. He was the father-in-law J.K.L. Ross who famously managed to burn his way through a $16 million inheritance in less than two decades. The Matthews house was designed by David Roberts Jr. (1845-1907) and still stands at the northeast corner of St. George Street and Hoskin Avenue, in the City of Toronto. Matthews survived his wife and lived here up until his death in 1919. Three years later, his children sold the mansion to the Newman Foundation, "an organisation devoted to providing spiritual and ecumenical services to the Catholic community, at the University of Toronto". It continues as the "Newman Centre" today.