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33: 139: 361: 376: 371: 258:, at the corner of King and York streets. Designed by the firm Mathers and Haldenby and built between 1937 and 1938, it was one of Toronto's best examples of 295:
in Scarborough. The street address once occupied by the 1937 Globe and Mail Building is part of the First Canadian Place complex and is now occupied by the
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Art Deco Architecture in Toronto : A Guide to the City's Buildings from the Roaring Twenties and the Depression
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s subsequent home on Front Street. Additional sculptural elements from the structure may be found at
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The main door of the original building was retained and installed at
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was a six-storey office building located at 140 King Street West in
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newspaper and was named after the founder of that paper,
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