thecharioteer
Senior Member
The rather handsome American Hotel - built in the 1840s I believe - was torn down to make way for the flamboyant Board of Trade building at Yonge and Front sometime around 1890.
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As seen here, before the Romanesque Revival descended on Yonge and Front: