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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