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124 Hurontario Street Tall, three-storey building with restored shop-front, cast-stone at second floor, cast-stone and brick above and with fine wood-and-metal cornice (c. 1910); see also Designation description. Ground Floor Period shop-front (original at recess, replicated elsewhere) has wooden coffers at stall-risers, fluted wooden posts, dentilled transoms and large transom windows. Narrow (plywood) fascia and simple wooden cornice end ground floor. Signage consists of brass letters only, mounted directly onto fascia. Aluminum-framed entry is incongruous in restored façade, while glazed RH side door to upper floors is small, but otherwise suitable. Second Floor Built in coursed, rock-faced, cast-stone blocks, with similar sills and lintels, and having four, evenly spaced, tall, replacement 1/1 windows built into original cases. Cast-stone masonry ends abruptly with brick courses at top of this floor. Third Floor Built in red brick, with continuous band of cast-stone sills and lintels as at second floor, and with four smaller, 1/1 replacement windows (again built into original cases). Cornice and Parapet Band of decorative, cast stone extends across most of façade to form abstraction of frieze. Parapet is of red brick, with wood-and-sheet-metal cornice with stepped lower profiles, small dentils and cornice above, all elements returning into masonry parapet at either side. Additional few brick courses are capped by cast-in-situ concrete copings.
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