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Robert Simpson Co. Mail-order Building and Additions 1916-1939

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Photo Source - Wikimedia Commons

Attached to the wall of this rather large white building at 108 Mutual Street is this 2006 Heritage Toronto plaque which gives us this information:

Coordinates: 43.657696 -79.375963

This landmark industrial building was designed by Chicago architect Max Dunning and the Toronto firm of Burke, Horwood, and White. In later years, matching additions were built to the north. Originally serving as a warehouse, manufacturing, and administrative building for the Robert Simpson Co. mail-order business, it also became the first headquarters of Simpsons-Sears (later Sears Canada) in 1952. In the late 1990s, the building was converted to residential lofts.

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> Posted February 21, 2010
I am delighted to have found these photographs and information as my grandfather headed the mail order department in the early twentieth century. These will be a wonderful addition to the family tree!

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