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66, 68 & 70 Hurontario Street Two-storey, buff-brick, classically inspired, corner building with dentilled wooden cornice at shop-front and grouped, second-floor windows set between brick pilasters and with central brick mullions, all having stone sills and lintels under moulded brick labels. Ground Floor Shop-front set between brick piers clad in painted aluminum at no. 66/68 and brick at no. 70. At no. 66, old stall-riser and shop-front remain, including, perhaps, upper shop-front elements. No 70 (corner unit) has brick stall-riser and aluminum-framed glazing possibly also with older upper shop-front elements. Plywood fascias are recent and are concealed by curved plastic canopies sporting diverse lettering. Dentilled wooden cornices remain throughout, suggesting again that older shop-front elements may be concealed behind modern finishes. Second Floor Upper floor contains groups of two (north) and three (south) windows, each group framed by lateral brick pilasters and with central brick mullions. Sills and lintels are of stone, with projecting courses of moulded brick forming label above. Pilasters and mullions all have upper brick fillet and moulded brick capitals above. Fenestration throughout is 1/1, with dentilled wooden transoms having clear transom windows above. (All apertures are double-glazed with metal storms.) Upper wall masonry has typical machicolations bringing wall-plane forward to plane of central and peripheral pilasters. Parapet Parapet is plain and has evidently based on extant wooden nailer strip and appearance of masonry list its cornice. Cornice would have been as on other Collingwood buildings of this type, i.e. sheet metal, with lower fillets, fascia, and probably with both dentils and modillions under projecting soffit finished with cyma recta. Parapet coping is of unflashed, cast-in-situ concrete and seems in good repair. South Elevation Elevation to Second Street is similar to main façade, but with minute, shop-front presence at compressed corner-bay only. Wall is divided by plain pilasters into five, two-bay units, with blank, vigourously sandblasted, buff-brick masonry (now lavishly adorned with historic mural) between. At ground floor, original aperture in central bay (now with modern aluminum-framed glass door) has masonry framing elements and lintels as elsewhere. In adjacent bay to west, a low, wide window aperture is more recent, but using reclaimed, old stone elements from elsewhere. At shop-front level, wooden fascia and dentilled cornice exist throughout, both stepping forward neatly around pilasters, and returning into west (rear) wall beyond. At second floor, treatment of apertures is similar to east elevation, each window being framed by brick pilasters having upper brick fillet and moulded brick capitals, also with stone sills and lintels, and with projecting courses of moulded brick forming label above. Original 1/1 windows all have metal storms which effectively obscure also dentilled wooden transoms and rectangular transom windows. Condition at parapet is as at east elevation, though here small, concrete capped, brick piers over pilasters rise above concrete coping. |
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