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A stub of Front Street to the east of the bay is shown on an 1834 plan of York. This would align today with Mill Street in the Distillery District. On an 1894 map of Toronto, Palace Street has become part of Front Street, and the street has been extended to the east to the Don River. The Esplanade is shown connected to Mill Street. And in the ...
The Dixon Building (number 49) and Griffiths Building (number 47) are parts of a heritage building located on Front Street, Toronto, Ontario. The 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-storey building is an example of Second Empire architecture and was constructed in 1872-3 according to the designs of Walter Strickland. Detail of the roof window at 47 Front St.
65-71 Front Street West Toronto ON 43°38′44″N 79°22′51″W / 43.6455°N 79.3808°W / 43.6455; -79.3808 ( Union Station (Canadian Pacific Railway and Grand Trunk
Simcoe Place is an office building and shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The tower is 148 metres (486 ft) metres (486 feet) with 33 floors. [2] It was completed by architects Carlos Ott and NORR in 1995.
Old Toronto [40] 98 Front Street East 1840 98 Front Street East: Old Town: Old Toronto [citation needed] 100 Front Street East 1840 100 Front Street East: Old Town: Old Toronto [40] Limehouse Back House 1840 1000 Murray Ross Parkway (The Village at Black Creek) York University Heights: North York [10] William Hume Blake House (Woodlawn) 1840 ...
The Great Fire of Toronto in 1849 caused the northern portions of this building to be pulled down, leading to the building of the current St. Lawrence Market in 1850 a block south at what was then Palace Street, and today is known as Front Street. The vacated area at the corner of King and Jarvis was in the heart of the growing community.
The book covers the architectural history of Toronto, [16] as well as Toronto history more generally from the First Nations' Toronto Carrying-Place Trail up to 1900. [17] The book was the first professional history of Toronto architecture, [7] providing overviews of the evolution of the city's building styles, mostly by focusing on monumental ...
The three railways now converged at the Toronto waterfront, a narrow strip of land south of Front Street. They were forced to share the limited real estate available. [2] As a consequence, the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) built the first union station in Toronto in 1858 at a location just west of the present Union Station train shed. [4]