John Cox Cottage, Heritage residence in Riverdale, Canada

John Cox Cottage is a log house at 469 Broadview Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, with walls of square-cut logs. The living room's south wall, half the west wall and half the interior east wall keep their original concealed logs; the northern parts were expanded in an early Victorian renovation by the firm Langley, Langley and Burke.

John Cox, a loyalist who sided with the Crown during the American Revolution, received a land grant in 1796 and built a log cabin on the site. Over the following decades the structure grew as new rooms and additions were built around the original cabin.

The cottage's true east–west alignment, set against Toronto's later street grid, makes it appear slightly twisted to the north. That orientation was chosen to maximize daylight and limit costly artificial lighting. Inside, original square-cut logs from the east wall remain visible within the rear kitchen addition.

The cottage sits on Broadview Avenue in Riverdale and can be seen clearly from the sidewalk without entering the property. Since the building is in a residential area, a short walk along the street is the best way to take it in.

The kitchen addition was built using logs salvaged from a separate 1840s cabin, chosen because they matched the original timbers in size and cutting style. This means part of the structure is actually assembled from two different buildings that happened to share the same construction method.