Monday, March 30, 2009

This is another great old building in downtown Toronto, complete with an excellent little bar in the "V" part of the basement. Urban Cowboy, help me out, again, with the name of this building, please.
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5 comments:

mr fkia said...

The Flatiron building

8:20 am
Anonymous said...

A similar building in lower Manhattan is called the Flatiron...is it the same in TO?

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7:08 pm
Urban Cowboy said...

Very similar - but it's even flatter than the TO version.

History note - the building prior to the TO Flatiron was called the Coffin Block. Same kind of design, but looked like a ......

It was Toronto's first stage coach stop.

See this link for cool side by each comparison;

http://www.russianbooks.org/
crime/pix/coffin-blockW.jpg

9:05 pm
Rob Greenfield said...

I looked at that site, UC, and as far as I'm concerned it's not flatter at all.

9:25 am
Urban Cowboy said...

Sorry, I meant the Coffin Block was compared to its successor, the TO Flatiron. Not the NYC Flatiron.

You'll have to find your own web site to see that one.

8:05 pm

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