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Consumers' Gas Building
Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2010
In the late 1880s, Toronto Street, a block long between King Street and Adelaide Street, two blocks east of Yonge Street, was Toronto's financial area. This head office building was part of that. Here's this 1985 Toronto Historical Board plaque attached to the building with the details:
Coordinates: 43.650338 -79.376113 |
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In 1852 the Consumers' Gas Company of Toronto established its new head office building on this site in the prestigious financial district of the city. Expansion to the north in 1876 added a second building at 19 Toronto Street, designed in the renaissance style by architect David B. Dick, whose later alterations in 1899 unified the façades of both buildings. The company remained in this location for 125 years. Renovations, undertaken by Stone and Kohn Architects, for Counsel Trust Company were completed in 1985.
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