John Street Roundhouse

John Street Roundhouse is a partially preserved railway roundhouse in Toronto, Ontario. Built for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1929 by Anglin-Norcross to replace the earlier John Street roundhouse built in 1893. It was one of two roundhouses in downtown Toronto (the other being CNR Spadina Roundhouse) It was last used in in 1986. One third of the original structure was dismantled, an underground garage for the Convention Centre built then, reconstructed (1995) and now home to Steam Whistle Brewery. Renovations to the brewery portion were done by William Hurst Architects.

In 2007 the City of Toronto announced two additional tenants would occupy the roundhouse: Leon's Furniture Limited would occupy 15 of the remaining 18 bays and a railway museum would use the 3 remaining bays situated between Steam Whistle and Leon's. [ [http://www.thestar.com/article/225994 torontostar.com "How do you spell creative bankruptcy? R-O-U-N-D-H-O-U-S-E"] - 16 June 2007] The planned future for Toronto's roundhouse received harsh criticism from the media for its lack of innovation. [citation | date=2008-09-01 | magazine =Driven Magazine]

ee also

* CNR Spadina Roundhouse
* Canadian Pacific Railway Lambton Roundhouse St.Clair Ave. W. and Runnymede Rd. in 1912-1913; demolished 1960
* Canadian Pacific Railway West Toronto Roundhouse 1891 - demolished 2001
* Canadian Pacific Railway Parkdale Roundhouse (King and Queeen at Dufferin Street) 1891 by Credit Valley Railway; last used 1907

References

External links

* [http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Toronto/JOHN_STREET.htm John Street Roundhouse at Old Time Trains]