Casa Loma: The Silver Screen's Favorite Mansion

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Join us as we explore Casa Loma, Canada's iconic mansion and the favored filming location for numerous Hollywood blockbusters. From the grand architecture to the fascinating history of its original owner, financier Henry Pellatt.
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@jillatherton4660 Год назад

What a splendid confection.

@toddhensley880 Год назад

I could live in the library!

@RADIUMGLASS Год назад

I visited Casa Loma during August 1987. I still have my sand sculpture souvenir of the castle on a shelf. When we were there the TV show Friday The 13th The Series was being filmed on the grounds.

@wmd9750 Год назад

Such a good video! Poor Sir Henry! I live quite near Casa Loma and always love passing by. . In fact I had my high school graduation formal there. Dinner in the library, dancing the conservatory. A quirky and eccentric part of Toronto's rather conservative history. Congratulations and thank you! William

@drand9585 Год назад

I thought an interesting feature of Casa Loma were the tunnels leading to the stables and garage.

@lisadolan689 Год назад

It’s like getting a wee little present you weren’t expecting when there’s a new upload. Thank you Ken 🙏☺️

@acatte1 Год назад

OOOoooo nice! Please do Parkwood Estate next, built by R.S. Mclaughlin. The Prince of Wales, Edward, would hunt and relax there, they filmed many movies as well. It is located in Oshawa Ontario. I have to add that many items were bought from Casa Loma to decorate Parkwood. The daughters also hosted the group of 7 artists. It was on Hilters list of places to bomb

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing Год назад

The key reason to build it was the guy wanted to entice royalty from Europe and important families from the U.S. and increase his prestige to an international level. He felt it could lead to money making opportunities. Outside of Canada he was a nobody. It totally failed. No one came except those looking for a free ride.

@DecorTours Год назад

I love the evolution of your channel. From walking around St. Louis to touring homes of St. Louis to picture tours of homes everywhere. You’ve come such a long way in a short time.

@ThisHouse Год назад

Thank you so much! Cheers!

@ropeburnsrussell Год назад

Magnificent. My jaw is hanging open.

@Reapunzil Год назад

Yay! a Canadian house :) I wish they had kept more than they did of it and I wish u could go up the towers still but still worth the trip if u are in Toronto Edit: that blue was her favorite blue which is why everything in her room was covered in it

@jeffreydavis7657 Год назад

Her room looked like it was made by Wedgwood! Simply stunning.

@bobbbxxx 9 месяцев назад

When Pellat went bankrupt over a century ago, the contents of Casa Loma were sold.

@Rocketjay12 Год назад

I visited there with family back in 1966 after my graduation from grade school.

@Gerry1of1 Год назад

From $600 a year to $1000 per month! That's robbery. There should be limits how much a tax can go up per year

@_Martine_ 7 дней назад

That’s how government takes away peoples property.

@monicacall7532 Год назад

The blue Wedgewood bedroom is to die for! Wedgewood is my favorite style of pottery, so to see this lovely room was wonderful. I also liked the stained glass and plaster work ceilings throughout the house. My other favorite room is the library. It is definitely a book lover’s paradise!

@silvermanandbuddy5111 Год назад

I drive by this monument of architecture everyday on the way to work and the stables are equally spectacular. ❤

@jimc4731 Год назад

I remember beautiful parquet floors in the castle! JIM ❤

@aflong62 11 месяцев назад

The blue and white bedroom took my breath away! I saw Casa Loma several times when visiting Toronto in the early 70s. Thank you for sharing the castle's grandeur with your viewers!

@waynegray5568 Год назад

Oh Canada!

@wdjones4735 Год назад

Oh boy! The stained glass is stunning👍🏻…..and a bottle of wine (or two)🍷 Thanks for sharing😊

@christopherkraft1327 Год назад

This is such a grand & opulent mansion, I especially like the dining room with its rich dark wood paneling!!! 👍👍🏣

@susprime7018 Год назад

The library with the wonderful glass doored bookcases and wonderful sculpted ceiling.😊

@Paulftate Год назад

what some people call a house 😂❤

@jimwiskus8862 Год назад

Or a “summer cottage”, like the mansions in New Port, RI. They were only there, in New Port, 8-10 weeks out of the year. 😊

@badbiker666 Год назад

This is the second time you have featured a house to which I have been. It was a long time ago, but I chaperoned a school trip for one of my daughters to Toronto, and the itinerary included Casa Loma. Honestly, I barely remember it. What I remember most was the kid who misbehaved, tried to slide down a stairway banister, fell, and broke his leg. He was the son of one of the other chaperones, too!

@LJB103 Год назад

I've visited several times - quite magnificent. It's a pity that you omitted one of the more unusual things in this house: to get to the garages/carriage house, there is a tunnel from the basement and under the street to them. Sir Henry ended up living with his chauffeur at the end (per one of the docents). The home next door: Spadina House is worth a video. Excellent video.

@kays749 Год назад

Yes. The tunnel is great fun.

@TarynsTime Год назад

That's great information. Now looking to deep dive more history of it.

@LJB103 Год назад

@@TarynsTime BTW: He lived with his chauffeur only because he was broke and the chauffeur took pity on him.

@justbreathe_ Год назад

That’s the first thing I think of. That’s where the gift shop is too

@betsybauer7340 Год назад

Special place, lived in the T. for 6 years

@sumerlawrence Год назад

As a Toronto native I've been there many times. The grounds are really beautiful during the summer. Definitely worth a visit albeit a little expensive. The tunnels are great although I don't want to think what has gone on down there - lol

@RolandMueller-xu8rv Год назад

Henry Pellatt lost his Hydro Electric Monopoly when James Beck, an Ontario MPP who was anti-monopoly, formed the Government run Ontario Hydro. With the loss of this fortune and the Great War's effect on his business investments and increased taxes, he did not complete his dream castle. He later had to live with his chauffeur until his death. (The City of Toronto recently restored the crumbling mortar in the outer stonework. It cost the City $18,000,000 and the work lasted almost 10 years.)

@mrs.g.9816 Год назад

Every room in that house is gorgeous! I especially like the blue bedroom.

@andywood5699 Год назад

My Parents went to dances at Casa Loma. My father, along with other neighbourhood boys would break in and run around when the building sat idle. I took students to the Castle and my favourite place is the underground tunnel. I feel sorry for Sir Henry Pellett. He lost everything.

@jackesioto Год назад

2:43 - Although ''casual'' in the 19th century was still quite formal! This was an era obsessed with etiquette and decorum.

@Matityahu755 Год назад

WOW. Ken, I love this house/castle /mansion. It's just stunning. If ever you take a vacation to the UK you could do a few shows of the stately homes and palaces that are on offer. You would be in your element travelling up and down the UK visiting and documenting your visits. Please, please, PLEASE consider going to the UK.

@MichelleSinTO Год назад

My favourite features of Casa Loma have always been the indoor pool, bowling lanes, and of course the conservatory & library. Special nod to the secret staircase from Sir Henry’s Study. The gardens are also stunning.

@philipgermani1616 11 месяцев назад

This brings back memories of my late dad. We toured the home about 30 years ago, and were in awe. I recall climbing all the way to the top of the tower, and my dad just shaking his head. The views of Toronto were magnificent! Thank you for helping me relive a fond memory.

@barbfinlay5798 Год назад

So glad you have featured this home, I was going to recommend it to you. There is a dark and kinda spooky tunnel that leads from the basement to some of the outer buildings. If you grew up in Toronto or the surrounding area you have probably been there at least once in your life.

@vernicethompson4825 Год назад

My favorite room shown here has to be the Lady's bedroom, done in blue and white. So pretty. And the sitting room next to it is almost as beautiful.

@randyboglisch137 Год назад

Thanks again for a wonderful tour of a marvelous confection of a home

@richardpointer5257 Год назад

I used to walk past this house on my way to school.

@user-tf2ru7oz6w Год назад

My parents visited Casa Loma years ago when they visited Toronto. They brought me the guidebook. It's a very beautiful place and I'm g;lad to see that it was restored and opened. I think it was later owned by the Kiwania Club. I know there was a building that was located across from the mansion that was separated by a road but was connected by an ubderground tunnel. i'm glad you included among youn THIS HOUDR programs .

@the23rdbryan Год назад

Visited twice as a teen in the 1980s. Great memories ! Thanks !

@mileshigh1321 Год назад

Thanks Ken! Having lived in Toronto and visited Casa Loma, I knew you would do it justice with a great video!

@amada2941 Год назад

I look at this little house, which by the way is spectacular 😍 Who will clean this place? Because it would take a battalion to make it possible in at least a week.👀

@tonydelgobbo6797 Год назад

Been there many times. Casa Loma is beautiful to tour

@jpavlvs Год назад

That's a snooker table not a pool table.

@StillBloom Год назад

So nice to see a hometown attraction. We used to go to Casa Loma on school trips all the time and I still love it! My favourites have always been the hidden staircases, the stables, and the conservatory. Thank you for sharing this with the world!

@corinnelaking569 Год назад

I have visited and toured Casa Loma with my family. However, I wasn't aware of the WW2 history. A very informative video on a grand old estate. Thanks so much for creating and sharing this!🙂

@keithdavis9897 Год назад

love this channel................love the old homes, mansions and they history behind them

@fredsavage4925 Год назад

Good ol' "how dare you try to own something" canuk land.

@sharonalexa Год назад

I live in Toronto. Casa Loma is a dreamy place to visit on a summer day. The gardens are beautiful.

@rickyt3961 Год назад

beautiful! thanks🏰

@kendranewton9071 Год назад

That library was my favorite

@marciafallon7653 Год назад

I gasped when I saw the stained glass dome in the atrium!

@jackesioto Год назад

Casa Loma isn't a house, it's a CASTLE!

@BamBamBigelow. Год назад

Holy Moly, my parents took me and brother/sister here in youth. Amazing house overlooking Toronto

@PaliSuttas Год назад

My mother was entertained at Casa Loma - for lunch, as I recall - by the daughter of the owner while she was studying for her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Toronto.

@davidbrims5825 Год назад

Why a Spanish name ? I was expecting a hacienda style house.

@leonardgilbert1762 Год назад

Excellent job Ken! Love all the great shots. There's a book out there called "The King of Casa Loma by Carlie Oreskovich". It tells an interesting story about this interesting man. Thanks again Ken ... Len from Toronto.

@itsjean3666 Год назад

Thanks Ken!

@jonclassical2024 Год назад

Hi Ken...I have toured Casa Loma in 1988....it is amazing...Happy Pride month to us Ken!

@miechelojpaganopagano2771 Год назад

I was there back in 1976, did not really see much ,because it was under restoration.

@BellaCroyda Год назад

I'll buy it. It's beautiful.

@bobbates7343 Год назад

I have flat feet . About forty years ago I went to Casa Loma and walked around the place . I had some very sore feet by the end of that walk. I can not imagine why anyone would want a house that big or some even bigger. The stables sure I would love to have those but the house is much to large for me . I remember reading the men who shoveled the coal to heat the place where paid something like fifty cents a hour.

@colourwheel5703 Год назад

Back in the 60’s I went here on a school trip. We went down to the underground tunnel.

@kimberlysusie701 Год назад

This house is like the Biltmore of Canada.

@dwightroberts7721 Год назад

Yeah. The hallways I remember from XMen

@equine2020 Год назад

I visited. Wow

@MrCherbear1990 11 месяцев назад

Slight correction…No part of Harry Potter was filmed at Casa Loma. It was used as “Hogwarts” for the premiere of Deathly Hallows.

@singularseeker Год назад

Been there when I lived in Toronto...The main entrance is really on the other side of the castle.....he moved out of the house eventually and moved to Spadina Road...

@krazmokramer Год назад

Fabulous mansion. But there's LOTS to be said for living within your means in case something goes wrong.

@charlesmayfield5262 Год назад

I have always wondered about the Castle "home, house, mansion" lol...where scenes from the movie "Death Becomes Her" was filmed, Is Casa Loma the place?

@alex0589 Год назад

My favorite use of this place is a meta apparition as itself (for once) as a filming location of a fictional movie in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the world" (2010)

@jabom99 10 месяцев назад

"...his collection of Model T's and other luxury vehicles." Lol

@rabit818 Год назад

I suspect the owners did not see rooms for weeks. A GPS is needed.

@dontarguewithidiots7459 7 месяцев назад

Not me looking up every movie this house has been in. lol

@tedsmart5539 Год назад

Next do Dunsmuir Castle at Hatley Park in Victoria, BC, Canada please.

@moocowdad Год назад

you should do one on dundurn castle in hamilton western end of lake ontario 50 miles from casa loma its gorgeous and imho much better

@olafbigandglad Год назад

Fun Toronto fact - Cas Loma is on Spadina Road. That's not the fun part . The fun part is that north of Bloor Street it's Spah-deen--a Road and south of Bloor it's Spah-dye-na Avenue

@user-mv9tt4st9k Год назад

😂😂

@alecs1196 10 месяцев назад

Incorrect Toronto Fact: Casa Loma's address is #1 Austin Terrace. It is NOT on Spadina Road. That not the fun part. The fun part (which you ALSO got wrong) is that the ENTIRE STREET itself is and always has been called Spadina (Spa-dynah) all the way from Lake Ontario PAST Bloor St. (where it changes from an Avenue to a mere Road! LOL) running northwards to the base of the hill at Davenport Rd.(actually the original shoreline of Lake Iroquois) upon which Casa Loma sits high above, as well as the much older estate and mansion right next door to the castle (also an amazing house museum), which is called: Spadina.... pronounced:"Spah-deen--a" The name originates from the Ojibway word ishpadinaa, meaning "high place/ridge"or "sudden rise in the land." When Spadina House was first built, it was a country estate far from then "downtown" Toronto. Spadina Ave/Rd was initially the driveway leading up to the house from their dock /landing on Lake Ontario.

@purplebutterfly7257 Год назад

It would be great if you could do one of Paletta Mansion in Burlington Ontario Canada.

@ThisHouse Год назад

Thank you for the recommendation, cheers!

@purplebutterfly7257 Год назад

@@ThisHouse your welcome 🙂

@gandfgandf5826 Год назад

Another remarkable survival. Favourites were the breakfast room, the Louis xvi round room and all the bedrooms that were shown. Of the larger rooms the library. Always the library. The other grand spaces were well suited to having a few hundred "friends" over to show off your dust collectors. A truly great film location for sure.

@IsaacSmelcZhan Год назад

casa loma stomp

@echolot 8 месяцев назад

I went to school here..

@billmolyneux8251 3 месяца назад

🎉

@deborahlinton9635 Год назад

Just as an FYI there are many secret stairways behind bookcases and beside fireplaces where he went to in order to hide from creditors.🇨🇦

@markjohnson9485 Год назад

I enjoyed the tour, but it would have been more interesting. Had you traveled to the top of the towers to explain if they were living quarters or what they were used for.

@coldlakealta4043 Год назад

the luscious nooks and crannies in the gardens - scene of generations of PDAs from wedding party attendees and prom goers - guilty as charged

@lisadolan689 Год назад

Ken, what are the little bath for in the bathrooms?

@vernicethompson4825 Год назад

He called them sitz baths, as you sit in them to wash that part of your body. Said to be good for easing hemorrhoids too.

@lisadolan689 Год назад

@@vernicethompson4825 ok

@jamesdavis5096 Год назад

How about this regular house

@majorneptunejr 8 месяцев назад

Beautiful house, but not familiar to me. I have never seen any of the movies you have mentioned.

@Laura-zy5jp Год назад

Cassadine Loma is massive and stunning Estate!!Famous for its beautiful ground and gardens . I like Casa Loma as it was when privately owned. The original furnishings were lovely . The library is very grand burltperhaps a little too cluttered with furnishings if the had robe moved to acces the rows of books. Beautiful floor to ceiling windows and gorgeous chandeliers. How grand!! It’s sad that this man had to auction off so much of his homes furnishings and treasures and ultimately let the government take over such a gorgeous estate. Thank heavens it wasn’t demolished!! I can’t begin to even imagine the number of household staff and groundskeepers needed to maintain a residence of this size. The sheer size of it is incredible!! Casa Loma is a lovely piece of my home Canada’s history Thanks for profiling this grand estate😊😊👏🏻👏🏻🌺🌼🌸💕🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

@user-kasper714oclhmns 8 месяцев назад

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@user-ci4wf1qb7e Месяц назад

It’s a snooker table not a pool table

@ibuguru Год назад

1. The conservatory. The stained glass dome is about the finest stained glass work I have ever seen. And perfect design for a conservatory. Magnificent! 2. The Library - as a bookworm, I adore libraries, and this one with the glass-fronted doors is really wonderful. Have not been to Toronto in many, many years, but never heard of Casa Loma. As something of a "house-freak," I would have loved to visit! BTW, I hated that white & gilt bed in the guest room. So overdone, it's ugly, the only ugly item in a wonderful house.

@roberthenleynola Год назад

The Model-T was a LUXURY vehicle??? Henry Ford must be spinning in his grave.

@johngibson4834 8 месяцев назад

I Wonder What The Value Of Casa Loma Would Be Today In 2023 ?

@abialo2010 Год назад

ive been there before when i was a little kid. went to wwf at sky dome then the next day on the way home we stopped there. A homeless guy broke into our minivan while we were inside. bums are the scum of the earth

@rogercook8277 Год назад

65 thousand Square feet with 98 rooms? That would be to much house for me, no matter how rich I may be. P.S. So him and his wife didn't sleep together? Mmmmmmmmm.. 😮😮😮

@tjblum57 Год назад

Raising taxes like that. Aholes. Reminiscent of my rent increase.

@lukewilliamsparent8113 Год назад

Ken di a house on my block! It's not so impressive in real life, and now totally overshadowed by the gaudy new money mansions, but you can't deny the view.

@donjohnson3701 10 месяцев назад

TAXES. From $600 a year to $12,000 a year! That is correct, you never really own property, you just lease it from the government. You miss a payment, they are ready to take over.

@jackiejermeay6568 Год назад

Taxes are nessesary. But they suck!!!!

@Eyedbythetiger Год назад

So the government basically stole this house? Going from $600 per year to $12000 per year is too extreme.

@georgespalding7640 Год назад

You know you got to pay for that free healthcare somehow.

@olafbigandglad Год назад

Except this happened about 35 years before we had universal health care.

@gandfgandf5826 Год назад

To pay the WWI debt possibly. I read that the UK took 80 years to pay off all WWI debts. Canada being a commonwealth country may have had to do the same. Always money for war.