Historic Toronto landmarks Archives

Toronto’s Guild Inn | Haunted Hotel in Scarborough’s Building Graveyard

High above the Scarborough Bluffs (Toronto), the Guild Inn began as a quiet 1914 summer estate before transforming into a rare blend of artists’ colony, architectural sanctuary, and wartime outpost.

Under Herbert and Rosa Clark, the property became home to creators. And later a rescue site for fragments of Toronto’s demolished historic buildings. Now the beautiful “building graveyard” in Guild Park.

But years of abandonment added a dark history. When the house was boarded up in the early 2000s, it became a magnet for ghost hunters and urban explorers.

Reporting stories of spirits that remain in the building.

by Ghost Guide Daniel

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HISTORY | BUILDING GRAVEYARD | GHOSTS

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Winter Garden Theatre | Dead Robber’s Chair & Ghost in Toronto

Toronto’s Elgin & Winter Garden isn’t just another theatre. It’s the last surviving double‑decker playhouse on Earth. A vertical marvel where two completely different worlds were once stacked seven levels high.

With the Elgin, all red‑velvet traditional elegance. Above floated the Winter Garden, a dreamlike forest of hand‑painted murals and preserved beech branches.

But this story is far stranger than you think! These twin theatres lived parallel lives through Vaudeville’s rise, the decline of Yonge‑Dundas, and a half‑century of abandonment that left the Winter Garden a time capsule.

Its restoration led to a Chicago import with a dark twist. Related to the Depression Era’s most infamous American bank robber. And discovering ghosts, like the Lavender Lady and Sam the Musician.

by Ghost Guide Daniel

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VAUDEVILLE | DECLINE | RESTORED | THE CHAIR | GHOST

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