SIMPSONS MAIL-ORDER WAREHOUSE DALHOUSIE STREET EXTENSION 1949

SIMPSONS MAIL-ORDER WAREHOUSE DALHOUSIE STREET EXTENSION 1949

This landmark industrial complex was built in stages between 1916 and 1950. Over the course of the twentieth century, the buildings functioned as the administrative centre and warehouse for the Robert Simpson Co., Simpsons, Simpsons-Sears and Sears Canada mail-order business. Orders were processed and goods sent from this site and from smaller facilities in Regina and Halifax to customers across the country. This section of the complex fronting on Dalhousie Street – an extension of the earlier building behind it – was designed by Frank S. Corley in 1949 in the unadorned International Style. Its façade was changed to match the older Mutual Street side when the complex was converted to residential lofts in the late 1990s.

Designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, 1997

HERITAGE TORONTO 2006

Sarah J. McCabe

September 18, 2018