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[[File:Yonge Sheppard NW Corner.jpg|left|thumb|The original site of the Dempsey Store, photographed in 2008.]]

[[File:Yonge Sheppard NW Corner.jpg|left|thumb|The original site of the Dempsey Store, photographed in 2008.]]


Latest revision as of 18:06, 19 December 2025

Historic site in Toronto, Ontario

Joseph Shepard House; also Dempsey Bros. Store

The Dempsey Store in North York’s Dempsey Park.

Interactive map of Joseph Shepard House; also Dempsey Bros. Store

Location 250 Beecroft Road
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6W3
Built 1860
Original use house and store
Type Municipal Heritage Designation (Part IV)
Designated December 17, 1998
The original site of the Dempsey Store, photographed in 2008.

Dempsey Store was a hardware store built in 1860 at the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The historic store was moved and restored as a historic site further north at 250 Beecroft Road in 1996.[1] The site in Dempsey Park is maintained by the Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division and the North York Historical Society.

The building is protected under Park IV of the Ontario Heritage Act since 1998. The designation notes: “Architecturally, the Dempsey store is a unique example of a rural mid-19th century building constructed in the Georgian Survival style with Neo-Classical influences. Its recent restoration has reintroduced those picturesque architectural elements that were added to the exterior of the building during the closing decades of the 19th century.”[2]

Media related to Dempsey Park at Wikimedia Commons

43°46′12″N 79°25′01″W / 43.770079°N 79.416966°W / 43.770079; -79.416966

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