Sir Henry Pellatt bought 25 lots in 1903, and the architect E. J. Lennox designed the castle-style house. Work began in 1911 with the stables, potting shed and Hunting Lodge, and the infobox gives completion in 1914. The First World War halted construction. The article gives 5.4 million Canadian dollars in the infobox and about 3.5 million in the text for the cost. The style is Gothic Revival.
It has 98 rooms and 64,700 square feet of floor area, which the article calls the largest private residence in Canada at the time. The city seized it in 1924 for unpaid taxes. It was briefly a hotel, and the Kiwanis Club ran it from 1937 to 2011.
The City of Toronto owns it, and Liberty Entertainment Group has held the lease since 2014. It was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1987.
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