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The Athenaeum Club 1891

Photo by contributor Laura Cooper - Posted September, 2009

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Attached to a building at 167 Church Street, just south of Shuter Street, is this 2006 Heritage Toronto plaque. The building is actually a façade incorporated into the residential building behind it. Here's what the plaque says:

Coordinates: 43.654424 -79.376156

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Built for the Athenaeum Club, this façade was designed by the architectural firm Denison and King in a Moorish Revival style, rare in Toronto. It features intricate brickwork, several Moorish window arches, and in the balcony, a cast-iron column with an exotic capital. From 1904 to 1967, the building was the Labor Temple - a home to the local labour movement, and host to key debates in Canadian labour history.

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Moorish Revival
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> Posted June 30, 2018
For as long as I have known of this building with its Visigothic (otherwise known as Mozarabic) arches to have existed I have admired it, and made a point of dropping by to see it again. On my latest visit to Church Street I couldn't find it. Please reassure me that at least the original façade of this building has been preserved, and that its heritage designation will spare it from any rash move to demolish it, or alter it beyond recognition.
Glen Molto [email protected]

> Posted October 1, 2013
Being a resident at the new building there, to me this is interesting.

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