The Toronto Street Post Office, also known as Toronto's Seventh Post Office, is a heritage building in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

, Ontario, Canada. It was completed in 1853 and is located at 10 Toronto Street in downtown Toronto. The building was designed by

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and Thomas Ridout in the

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style.

History

It served as a post office until 1872 and as a government office building until 1937. It was then used by the

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until 1959, when it became the head office of

E. P. Taylor Edward Plunket Taylor, CMG (January 29, 1901 – May 14, 1989) was a Canadian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist. He was a famous breeder of Thoroughbred race horses, and a major force behind the evolution of the Canadian horse-racing ...

Argus Corporation The Argus Corporation was an investment holding company based in Toronto, Ontario. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was the most powerful and best known conglomerate in Canada, at one time controlling the companies making up 10 percent of all shar ...

, which was subsequently controlled by

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...

. It was here that Conrad Black was taped removing boxes of documents from the office. The building was sold to Morgan Meighen & Associates, an independent Canadian investment manager, in 2006 for . They were one of 200 bidders for the property, which sold for per sq. foot, roughly three times the price of a typical building in downtown Toronto. In 1958, the building was designated a

National Historic Site of Canada National Historic Sites of Canada (french: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment An environment minister (sometimes minister of the environment or secretary of t ...

. In 2006, it was designated by the City of Toronto under the ''

Ontario Heritage Act The ''Ontario Heritage Act'', (the ''Act'') first enacted on March 5, 1975, allows municipalities and the provincial government to designate individual properties and districts in the Province of Ontario, Canada, as being of cultural heritage ...

'' (By-law 182–2006).City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties
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References

External links

Property Details
- City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties
Info at the Canadian Register of Historic Places

10 Toronto Street
{{NHSC Buildings and structures in Toronto Former post office buildings Post office buildings in Canada Greek Revival architecture in Canada City of Toronto Heritage Properties