Editing Riverdale, Toronto (section)

==History==
[[File:Across Gerrard from the Don Jail, 2016 04 28 (2).JPG - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital was expanded in 2003 to include the former [[Don Jail]].]]

In 1875, the House of Refuge (later renamed Riverdale Hospital) opened at the corner of [[Broadview Avenue]] and Gerrard Street East. The hospital took on its current name [[Bridgepoint Active Healthcare]] in 2002, and later expanded to include the former [[Don Jail]] in the Bridgepoint Redevelopment project. The hospital is now called Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital and is part of Sinai Health.

The 1884 annexation of the area then called Riverside Don Mount and Leslieville an area from the Don valley on the west to Greenwood on the east, and from Danforth on the north to Queen Street on the south.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14215916/historicTOmaps/1915-AnnexationDates.jpg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919232709/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14215916/historicTOmaps/1915-AnnexationDates.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-09-19|title=Annexation Map, 1915.|date=1915|website=From Report to the Civic Transportation Committee on Radial Railway Entrances and Rapid Transit for the City of Toronto Volume II|publisher=City of Toronto|access-date=September 19, 2016}}</ref>

Riverdale is located just east of Toronto's downtown core. Since its amendment to the City of Toronto in 1884, it has developed a stature as a neighbourhood of independent arts, with several independent galleries located along Queen Street East. The residential landscape within Riverdale is made up primarily of [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian architecture|Edwardian]] style homes, constructed in the 1800s as boarding rooms for the working-class.