Sterling Tower
Commercial offices in Ontario, Canada
43°39′04″N 79°22′54″W / 43.650973°N 79.381612°W / 43.650973; -79.381612Sterling Tower is a twenty one storey [3] art deco skyscraper at 372 Bay Street at Richmond Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Overview
Designed by Chapman and Oxley, and completed in 1928,[4] the building was the tallest in the city for one year, until the construction of the Royal York Hotel. Henry Falk, a New York entrepreneur, was the builder responsible for Sterling Tower's construction along with local firm Yolles & Rotenberg. The Sterling Tower was part of Toronto's late 1920s building boom.
Recognition
On 18 August 1976, Sterling Tower was adopted by the City Council of Toronto as an architectural/contextual Heritage Property.[5]
References
- ^ "Emporis building ID 132770". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Sterling Tower". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ "Toronto Top Ten (by height) 1929-2014". Urban Toronto. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ "Historicist: Beaux Arts Eclecticism". Torontoist. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ "Heritage Property Detail: Sterling Tower". City of Toronto. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
External links
- Sterling Towers at UrbanDB
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