151 & 153 Hurontario Street



Simple, two-storey, red-brick, corner building, two units wide (c. 1915).

Ground Floor – Original shop-front materials are either obscured or, more probably, replaced and deep flashing above a lost, wood or metal cornice. Shop-fronts have recent materials of Angel-stone stall-risers, aluminum-framed glazing and very deep, back-lit, box signs, and masonry piers are concealed in vertical, pre-painted aluminum cladding.

Second Floor – Articulated into two units by three, brick pilasters, with cast-stone bands at base, middle and top. Each unit contains pair of segmental-arch apertures with (replacement) thin stone sills and metal-framed windows having small lower sash. Decorative brickwork consists of dog-toothed course within four, slightly corbelled courses between pilasters. Ogee-and-roll, metal cornice spans full width of building, returning neatly into outer pilasters.

Parapet – Brick pilasters continue some three feet above cornice, between which is recessed, plain, brick parapet. Clumsy expanse of vertical metal cladding above (which may hide additional dog-toothing, corbelling and copings) is capped by galvanized-metal flashing.

South Elevation – Two south bays are generally similar to front. Second floor has ladder-type brick band-course extending between plain pilasters, and segmental-arch aperture in second bay has thin sills and pair replacement windows as at front. Metal-clad parapet, stepping down to east, is inappropriate to period of building and may hide decorative features.


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