Doors Open Toronto - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Our third stop in Doors Open Toronto was the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Let's start first with a picture of just a part of the library:


Now let's tell you a little bit more about those books than what you can already imagine by the name of the library. The books range from 1789 to contemporary and you can even find manuscripts written in 1050! First editions of hundreds of books, and every rare book you can imagine... WOW! It is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G, and do you know how many they have? More than 600.000 volumes!

The library is located at the University of Toronto and is open from monday to friday for those of you that want to see it ;) And you know what? If you really need one of those books, they let you see it up close :D

Doors Open Toronto - Distillery District

Our second stop in Doors Open Toronto was the Distillery District! The Distillery District is old but beautiful and you can find shops and places to eat all the time.

The district is normally open and you can go see it anytime, but for Doors Open Toronto had 2 special places that you can't normally see.

The first one we went was the Kiln Furnace and Barrel Vaults (Building 36) which is dated to 1863, and has a five barrel vault which they call catacombs and just thinking about the history makes you wonder and imagine everything that happened there.


The second one was the Rack House D (Building 42) and it's the largest Victorian storehouse at the Distillery District. It was designed by David Roberts, Jr. and opened in 1890. It has 6 storeys and could hold up to 15.000 barrels of alcohol. Can you imagine that much alcohol in the same place? Once you go in is easy since you can easily smell it all over the place ;)



More stops in Doors Open Toronto coming soon ;)

Doors Open Toronto - Gooderham Building

Our first stop in Doors Open Toronto was the Flatiron Building which is really called Gooderham Building. I love this building, its shape is really amazing and something I've never seen before.

It was built in 1892, making it the first flatiron building, and was built by architect David Roberts, Jr. for distiller George Gooderham. Gooderham could see from his window the distillery district and the bank of Toronto, which he owned ;)



It also has a really amazing mural on it's back, for which is also really popular ;)



Now it's a private building with offices, so you can't normally go in without being invited, and that it's why this was an amazing opportunity to see how it looked like inside :D