137, 139 & 141 Hurontario Street



Largely intact, two-storey, red-brick building having decorative stone, metal and terra cotta (c. 1897); now with startling asymmetry at shop-front level. See also Designation description.

Ground Floor – Stokes “second generation shop-front”, built over stone base, is largely intact, as are three remaining, brick piers. Shop-fronts, with leaded lights at upper level (concealed at RH side), and double metal cornices, including dentils, remain. Bronze, shop-front glazing bars remain at RH unit only, and older stall-risers may exist behind vertical boards. At south side, multiple-panel, part-glazed wood door, with period metal straps, leads to upper floor. Above stone door lintel is vertical, oval window with rubbed bricks and quadrant keystones.

Second Floor – Central, three-bay block is separated from adjacent wall-plane by single pilaster at each side and capped with decorative brick and sheet-metal cornice. Five round-headed windows are built off continuous, ashlar sills and band-course. Lateral windows are narrow, with large keystones breaking arch of single hood moulding over fine, rubbed-brick voussoirs. Three central windows have similar treatment, including flush ashlar band-course between. Windows are new, round-headed, PVC replacements 2/1 at central bays and 1/1 at sides, appropriate in form if not in material (although originals may well have been 2/2).

Cornice and Parapet – Lower cornice composed of moulded (egg motif) brick and terra cotta cap spans between central pair of brick pilasters having ogee-shaped copings of cast iron with various small finials. Upper cornice spans between outer pilasters and has corbelled machicolees of increasing size supporting projecting brick course with moulded bricks (including egg-type) above. Several additional courses of plain brick masonry (possibly once having high-level metal cornice) rise to deep strip of brown metal flashing.

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