The Dominion Hotel is a restaurant and former hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built at the end of the nineteenth century in the neighborhood of Corktown, it is a heritage hotel structure that has not been demolished and replaced with modern structures. Structure is a designated heritage property.
The hotel was built in 1889. The first owner was Robert T. Davies, who founded the Dominion Brewery to the west of the building (now Dominion Square) in 1877. Davies had previously been the manager of the nearby Don Brewery, owned by him. relative Thomas Davies.
As originally built, the hotel is four stories high, has a mansard roof, and a small tower. Upstairs, once "boasting elegant show room" . Sometime after 1945, the building lost the fourth floor, the mansard roof and the tower. The hotel reopened in 1998 as a bar.
Bar closed in 2014 for renovation work. In mid 2015, FAB Restaurant Concepts bought the bar and on November 31, 2015 reopened as Dominion Pub & amp; Kitchen. The upper floor is used as a boardinghouse of 25 units.
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- Media associated with Dominion Hotel (Toronto) on Wikimedia Commons
- Dominion Pub and Kitchen
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