...Not far away at Queen and Parliament, the showroom that for decades housed Marty Millionaire furniture store has also been fully restored. Given that this was one of the most unpleasant corners in the city, the change is even more startling. The original structure, constructed in 1907, was expanded in the 1920s and then in the late ’70s, when Marty Millionaire arrived, painted a noxious turquoise blue that made it impossible to ignore, for all the wrong reasons.
Chicago style
With three rows of large windows arranged horizontally, it is an elegant reworking of the Chicago style. Designed by architect Henry Simpson for the Home Furniture Carpet Company, it will soon become the Global Learning Centre of Free the Children, now called WE Charity.
Though one thinks of early 20th-century architecture as heavy on the outside and dark inside, this building is anything but. The renovation, which was done in collaboration with Kohn Partnership Architects, architect Philip Goldsmith and TriAxis Construction Limited, has returned it to the world of light. Now it is poised to do the same for the intersection.
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