The Globe and Mail

Frank Richmond remembers the time his father, architect Edward Isaac Richmond, heard about a unique house party where guests were handed sledgehammers with their drinks and encouraged to take a few swipes at whatever struck their fancy. It was an old house, and the architect who'd purchased it was having it bulldozed the next day in order to build something new. "My father was so upset by this because he viewed a home as almost a holy place," Mr. Richmond says. "When you demolish a building, there had to be a degree of respect." Ed Richmond would have liked Wendy Davis and her husband Peter. Owners of Manley house, which the architect designed in 1954, the couple often begin their parties by serving drinks at the wet bar he created for the residence near Cedarvale Park.