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Simpsons Mail-order Warehouse Dalhousie Street Extension

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted April, 2007

This former warehouse at 155 Dalhousie Street has this 2006 Heritage Toronto plaque attached which says:

Coordinates: 43.657557 -79.376875

This landmark industrial complex was built in stages between 1916 and 1950. Over the course of the twentieth century, the buildings functioned as the administrative centre and warehouse for the Robert Simpson Co., Simpsons, Simpsons-Sears and Sears Canada mail-order business. Orders were processed and goods sent from this site and from smaller facilities in Regina and Halifax to customers across the country. This section of the complex fronting on Dalhousie Street - an extension of the earlier building behind it - was designed by Frank S. Corley in 1949 in the unadorned International Style. Its façade was changed to match the older Mutual Street side when the complex was converted to residential lofts in the late 1990s.

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> Posted February 20, 2012
In 2002, Greg Lindberg wrote a 122-page history of this building complex: "The Merchandise Building--Original Lofts, Original Story". He says the out-of-print book was "mainly for the people who live here and some of the local history buffs", but the Toronto Archives has a copy. -Wayne

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