194 Roxborough Drive - ROSEDALE
If you have been reading the Globe and Mail recently...
Or you follow architecture...
Or the Architectural Digest annual tour...
Or the Cool Hunter...
Or Azure magazine...
Or read the Wall Street Journal who quoted Glenn D. Lowry, director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, as saying..."I think it's one of the most important private houses built in North America in a long time"
Or a multitude of other internet sites including Pinterest...
You probably know this house.
It is an 18,000 square foot, 4 bedroom, 8 bathroom house on a 60 x 401.87 foot lot that was the home of the late mathematician, James Stewart.
Stewart made a LOT of money writing the most popular calculus text books in the world...
Like the calculus symbol and the symbol on a violin...
An instrument played by Stewart who also played in the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra...
This house is named after the calculus symbol, and one of the basic rules of calculus (thank you Google)...
Integral.
The name of this house is the 'Integral House'.
It was designed by Bridget Shim and Howard Sutcliffe of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects (click here to see the list of others involved) and was inspired by the works of Finnish architect Alvar Aaltor. It took 3 years to design and 6 years to build.
The house was completed in 2009.
Since then, Stewart hosted many concerts like this one by Steve Reich...
And charity events such as the LGBT donor recognition event seen here...
As well as annual Halloween and Pride Week parties.
Here is one of several clips of Stewart talking about his love of teaching, music, and calculus...
On December 3, 2014, Stewart passed away from multiple myeloma.
As was mentioned in this Globe and Mail article written in September 2014, just 3 months before his passing, and the Globe and Mail's obituary for Stewart...
According to the Globe and Mail article written last week about the house...
Mr. Stewart’s executors will give most of the money from the sale of the house to his chosen arts and scientific organizations in the form of endowments and bequest.
Though the house reportedly cost about $32 million to build with the previous house costing almost $6 million to buy before tearing down...
After being quietly for sale for that last year, and 2 months after the listing video was published on the internet...
It is now officially on the market...
For $28,000,000.
As the Globe and Mail article in September 2014 stated...
It will probably take two years to find a buyer for the house. During that time, the executors will continue to let Mr. Stewart’s favourite groups organize concerts.
Here is a video of Joseph Clement, who is currently writing and directing a documentary about James Stewart titled 'The Integral Man', as he walks through the Integral House last month...
And here is a clip of the movie that is set to be released in 2016 ...
As Stewart once said...
“My books and my house are my twin legacies.
If I hadn’t commissioned the house, I’m not sure what I would have spent the money on"
P.S. After writing this yesterday, I was looking at the pictures again.
While I was looking at the pool, I noticed the marble on the back wall...
To me, it looks like the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland...
Written by Lewis Carroll who, after doing some googling, I found out happens to be a mathematician himself...
And Alice in Wonderland is apparently full of math references.
So...either this was intended or it was a coincidence.
Or maybe I am the only one that sees a rabbit in the marble and perhaps I should stay away from the hookah.
