thecharioteer
Senior Member
Same view 1925:College at University looking east.
Streetview 2009:
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2023:
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1951:
Same view 1925:College at University looking east.
Streetview 2009:
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2023:
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Amazing comparison! I think about that green space on Power Street, between the Richmond and Adelaide ramps of the DVP which once housed the charitable Houses of Providence:Looking east, Richmond and Parliament.
THEN: Sept 30, 2005
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NOW: Oct 11, 2023
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It would seem that these beauties are all gone then (from 1915, 1924 and 1931):
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More on grounds of the dull barrel-bottom "bureaucratic Moderne" replacement and its fortress-like stance relative to the corner. However, to be fair, the original would almost certainly have been viewed as nothing more than a dated eyesore in the 1930s...The transition of the former to the latter should be considered a crime.
The building is about to undergo another 'face lift"! https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/67-adelaide-st-e-revovation-na-me-res-4s-hilditch.32982/page-2A straight lift of the 'Then and Now' from FB, as per the below; s/w corner Adelaide and Church:
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The transition of the former to the latter should be considered a crime.
Good catch!Looking at @TwinHuey 's set above.....:
This building: (then)
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Is this building (now)
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