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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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