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BellehavenBellehaven was the residence of William Taylor and his wife Isabella. It stood across the road from the Todmorden Hotel.
The mansion, constructed in 1887, was named in honour of Isabella Taylor, who was known as Belle.
The lavish residence consisted of 19 rooms, nine fireplaces, a conservatory and magnificent stained glass windows. It was reported that Bellehaven was built with 75,000 bricks fired in a private kiln near the Taylor's paper mills.
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William Taylor was forced to sell Bellehaven in 1917. It was purchased by the president of Dufferin Construction Company, James Fransceschini, who needed a location to dump fill from the excavation of land for new downtown Toronto buildings. In return for using the Bellehaven ravine as a dump site, the Taylors were permitted to reside in the house until their deaths. William Taylor died at Bellehaven at the age of 86 in 1944, while Isabella died in 1951 at the age of 94.Bellehaven was demolished in the late 1950s to make room for an apartment building.
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