And now for something more modest. There's a recessed doorway on Elgin Street that appears oddly out of place.
It narrowly escaped immolation when the building next door burned in 1978. The four-door row at 378-82 Elgin Street was a converted rowhouse.
The burn-out was replaced the following year with this bi-level commercial building (Ala Kantti Associates, 1979).
The Crown Apartments' front door is a series of half-moon arches nestled together - the brick arch, the semicircular window over the door, the window in the door, and the crown itself.
There's another round-headed window on the second floor, directly above. The sidewalk entrance to the commercial row was a mid-1980s addition (Michael Brum, Architect). The Elgin Street Diner's facade is a 1950 brick refacing of a much older building.
The units in the Crown Apartments (all three of them) are above the diner. The arrow points to the rear of the apartment building entrance.
The name and address are picked out in gold leaf - the work of a sign painter from long ago.
And now for something more modest. There's a recessed doorway on Elgin Street that appears oddly out of place.
It narrowly escaped immolation when the building next door burned in 1978. The four-door row at 378-82 Elgin Street was a converted rowhouse.
The burn-out was replaced the following year with this bi-level commercial building (Ala Kantti Associates, 1979).
The Crown Apartments' front door is a series of half-moon arches nestled together - the brick arch, the semicircular window over the door, the window in the door, and the crown itself.
There's another round-headed window on the second floor, directly above. The sidewalk entrance to the commercial row was a mid-1980s addition (Michael Brum, Architect). The Elgin Street Diner's facade is a 1950 brick refacing of a much older building.
The units in the Crown Apartments (all three of them) are above the diner. The arrow points to the rear of the apartment building entrance.
The name and address are picked out in gold leaf - the work of a sign painter from long ago.
I have never seen this door in my life! What!?
ReplyDeleteexcellent post! Caught me off guard too because when I saw "crown apartments", I was thinking it'd be about the NCC-owned/DMS-managed apartments on Sussex... future post, maybe?
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this! Elgin is a street that hasn't in general received as much in the way of heritage attention locally and it's always nice to see. (Until we moved to Beechwood this year, my wife and I were definite Elgin locals)
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