Inn on the Park

Inn on the Park was a luxury hotel that once graced the hill overlooking Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue in North York, Ontario. The Inn on the Park was built three years after (1963) the founding of the parent company Four Seasons and the Four Seasons Motor Inn. This site marked the first attempt to build a hotel outside of downtown Toronto. Surrounded by 600 acres (2.4 km) of parkland. The site was chosen as it was located not far from the Don Valley Parkway and focused on the company's emphasis of resort and business travel. Built on what was still farmland in North York, the first phase consisted of the hotel's lower building, built by architect Peter Dickinson, who built the first Four Seasons hotel in 1961. From the air the...