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A walk around the site tonight:

Let's remember what the starting point was with this pic taken by androiduk on UT back in 2012:

Also from today:

This room is part of the condominium lobby.

Lobby.

True. Of course neither columnar English Oaks nor poplars have ever been popular street trees in Toronto given they don’t create a canopy over the street and can crowd the sidewalk. There is also a columnar Norway Maple and that may be the mystery tree:

Whatever they were, they certainly were short lived as they don't appear in other pics of Jarvis after the time of this pic (which I think is around 1880). There is a wonderful series of photos taken by the Parks Dept. of the Jarvis Street trees taken in 1916 in the Toronto Archives in which...

Another photo by Notman, a rather moody view of Toronto Street in the 1890's:

As has its interior: