202, 204 & 206 Hurontario Street



Two-storey, three-bay, red-brick building with pre-cast sills and lintels, modillioned metal cornice and punctured brick parapet (c. 1915).

Ground Floor – Brick piers at either side have rock-faced stone bands, between which replacement aluminum shop-fronts are very simple, with small stall-risers, symmetrical panes and recessed entrances. Inappropriate, central door is off-the-shelf, half-glazed, stamped metal. Upper shop-fronts have vertical metal fascia concealed by two typical, plastic-clad canopies having much-differing signage. Original shop-front cornice may remain above.

Second Floor – Upper bays contain two very wide windows at outer bays, with smaller central windows either side of (newer) central brick pier. Flat, reinforced-concrete lintels facilitate unprecedented width of outer bay window apertures, a technical innovation of the time. All windows are unsuitable, metal-framed replacements, with fixed panes over bottom-sliders, contributing little to aesthetic of building and, of course, allowing poor ventilation. Spandrel panels above have projecting, rectangular brick frame as only embellishment.

Cornice and Parapet – Metal cornice with block-type modillions extends across façade, over two central pilasters, returning into outer pilasters. Tall, white, metal flashing above has clumsy aspect. At parapet, stone-capped piers rise above pilasters, while punctured brickwork (with prominent, white, metal flashing) extends between piers.


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