Location: SE corner of Church at Richmond
Date photo taken: 4 April 2013
"The window arrangement is particularly pleasing and a graceful note is added by the use of wrought-iron balconies, entranceway and ornamental lamps." That's how the Toronto Daily Star of January 24, 1930 described the newly proposed building at the corner of Richmond and Church. It was to be the new home of the J. Frank Raw Co. Ltd., makers of surveying instruments and machines for creating blue prints. It was designed by Murray Brown and it won him an award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. I am pleased that the new building was such a beauty because it replaced one of the oldest remaining store blocks from the early days of Toronto.
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