Excerpt from www1.toronto.ca:
The Toronto Club: 107-109 Wellington Street West
Era: Pre-War
Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
Heritage Status: Municipally Designated 1990
Reasons for municipal designation:
“The Toronto Club was completed in 1888, 1912(renovation) is designated to be of historic and architectural value as one of the oldest club buildings in the City and at the same time as a notable example of the work of an important firm of architects working in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.”
The building has been recognized for the “important humanizing effect of its smaller scale and warmly-toned materials amidst the extensive rebuilding of the downtown core”. It is one of the few remaining 19th century buildings in the Financial District, and a reminder of a time when office towers were not the predominant type.
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