Adam Wynne

Nominated for the Stephen A. Otto Award for Research and Documentation for his outstanding contributions to the Toronto & East York Community Preservation Panel and TOBuilt database

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Adam Wynne is a passionate researcher and heritage advocate who has greatly enriched the work of the Toronto & East York Community Preservation Panel (TEYCPP). His skills at unearthing the smallest historical details, along with his scholarship, relentless curiosity, and championing of heritage have measurably benefitted Toronto and its citizens by helping to preserve the city’s story through its heritage assets.

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Before Panel Chair Paul Farrelly invited Adam to work with the Panel in May 2021, Adam had submitted nominations for approximately 120 properties for Part IV designation to what was then Heritage Preservation Services. Since joining the Panel as a guest, he has submitted an additional 106 nominations, for a total of around 225 since spring 2021. Each nomination is highly detailed, demonstrating a professional’s skilled research and scholarship. Adam has been selected by the City of Toronto Heritage Planning department to be the TEYCPP point person to assist with manager Gary Miedema’s heritage survey project, a massive inventory of Toronto’s cultural heritage properties.

ACO Toronto’s publicly accessible database, TOBuilt, has also benefitted enormously from Adam’s volunteer work researching, photographing, and cataloguing Toronto’s recognized and potential heritage resources. His research and contributions have been acknowledged by the City of Toronto’s Heritage Planning department as being of great assistance to them in identifying heritage properties, particularly properties at risk and those that may have remained overlooked. 

Adam also offers a variety of free heritage-themed public walking tours as well as talks and workshops on heritage research to architecture students and members of the general public.

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