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Dingman's Hall (later Broadview Hotel) 1891

Photo and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted October, 2016

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted October, 2016

Photo Source - urbantoronto.ca

Photo Source - Wikipedia Commons

This 2015 Heritage Toronto plaque is produced with the Riverdale Historical Society. The building is situated on the northwest corner of Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue. The plaque can be found attached to the wall on the Broadview Avenue side to the left of what will likely be the main entrance when renovations are complete. Here's what it tells us:

Coordinates: 43.658926 -79.349950

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This four-storey Romanesque Revival-style building was constructed for Archibald W. Dingman, an entrepreneur influential in Alberta's early oil-drilling industry and a principal in Pugsley, Dingman & Co., a Toronto-based soap manufacturer. A landmark on Queen Street East, it features a prominent corner tower with a pyramidal roof, wide arches and rusticated stonework on the ground floor, rows of rounded-arch and squared-head window openings, and decorative terra cotta panels. The Canadian Bank of Commerce was originally located at street level, with offices and meeting halls on the upper floors. In 1907, Dingman sold the building to Thomas J. Edward who converted it into the Broadview Hotel a year later. It has since undergone several renovations and name changes.

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