Spadina House
Spadina House (built 1866) is a historic manor on Spadina Road in Toronto. It is now a museum and signs directing traffic and pedestrians to the house now call it Spadina Museum. It was built by James Austin, founder of The Dominion Bank and Consumers Gas, on land that had previously been owned by Toronto's noted Baldwin family. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century the area was the wealthiest in Toronto, with a number of Toronto's leading families having large estates. Many Torontonians follow a convention of pronouncing Spadina Road "Spad[ai]na" and Spadina House "Spadeena"; however, it is not uncommon to hear Spadina Road pronounced "Spadeena" as well. South of Bloor Street, however, Spadina Road becomes Spadina Avenue, which is always pronounced "Spad[ai]na".