Toller House
Address: 229 Chapel Street
Construction date: 1875
The Toller House is a two-and-a-half storey brick residence located within Sandy Hill. The Toller House, constructed for J.H. Plummer, Ottawa manager of the Bank of Commerce, was designed by Henry Horsey and John Sheard, architects of the original Ottawa City Hall and other notable buildings in Ottawa.
Several prominent members of the Ottawa community have been associated with the Toller House. For a brief period, the house was occupied by Supreme Court Justice Telesphore Fournier. A few years before moving to the Toller House, as a Member of Parliament, Fournier tabled the bill that would create the Supreme Court. He was one of the first Justices appointed after the creation of the Supreme Court in 1875, the same year the Toller House was constructed.
The house was then sold to Frederick Toller, comptroller of Dominion Currency.
The residence subsequently passed through the hands of the Honourable Louis Philippe Brodeur, former Speaker of the House of Commons and responsible for introducing legislation which created the Canadian Navy. During his residency at the Toller house, Honourable Brodeur was a Supreme Court Justice and was later appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
It presently houses the Embassy of Croatia.
