Beard Building

Beard Building

The Beard Building is regarded as Toronto's first skyscraper, and was completed in 1894.cite web|url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=streetbeardbuilding-toronto-canada|title=The Beard Building |publisher=Emporis|accessdate=2008-02-18] It was planned to be a nine-storey, iron-framed structure, but it only reached seven storeys when completed and was a more traditional wood/brick combination.

The Beard Building was a bank at street level, a commercial and office tower, and a hotel. The building was named after George Beard, the original landowner of the site at Jarvis St. and King St. East. [http://pages.interlog.com/~urbanism/lennox.html Urbanism: The Beard Building]

It was demolished in 1929.

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