The Dominion Hotel is a restaurant and former

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, Canada. Constructed in the late nineteenth century in the Corktown neighbourhood, it is a heritage hotel structure that has not been torn down and replaced with a modern structure. The structure is a designated heritage property. The hotel was constructed in 1889. Its first owner was Robert T. Davies, who founded the

Dominion Brewery The Dominion Brewery was a brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It operated from 1878 until 1936. The brewery was founded by Robert T. Davies in 1877. Davies had been a manager at his brother Thomas' brewery, the Don Brewery on the Don River at ...

to the west of the building (now Dominion Square) in 1877. Davies had previously been the manager of the nearby Don Brewery, owned by his relative Thomas Davies. As originally constructed, the hotel was four stories tall, had a

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, and a small tower. The top floor, once ''"boasted an elegant performance space"''. Sometime after 1945, the structure lost its fourth floor, mansard roof and tower. The hotel re-opened in 1998 as a bar. The bar closed in 2014 for renovation work. In mid-2015, FAB Restaurant Concepts purchased the bar and on November 31, 2015 it was re-opened as the Dominion Pub & Kitchen. The upper floors are used as a

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of 25 units.

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Dominion Pub and Kitchen
Hotels in Toronto Hotel buildings completed in 1889 1889 establishments in Ontario