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Illustration Sunday: 197 King Street East

By Kevin McBride

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Recent renovations at the ROM and OCAD have been subject to much discussion, but there’s more to Toronto than contemporary architecture. Though often overlooked, there are a variety of interesting historical buildings to be found around town. Over the next few weeks, Illustration Sunday will show you some of these buildings.
Pictured above is the building situated at 197 King Street East, in an area known as Old Town Toronto. Featuring elaborate woodworking and brick patterns, it’s an elegant, older building.
Illustration by Kevin McBride. This drawing and others from the Buildings series are on display at The Cameron House (408 Queen Street West.) The show is up until April 14th, with an opening reception April 3, 8-10 p.m.

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  • matty

    You might want to ad a picture of the actual building.

  • jayzie1

    If only the building in question looked as nice as it does in the illustration. I love this building, but it has been sadly neglected and looks in danger of falling apart. The door on the left hand side leads to “Beethoven Hall”, but I’ve never seen anyone use that entrance (in fact, the upper floors looks abandoned from the street). Even the “antique store” on the first floor seems rarely, if ever, visited.

  • Fred

    This building is currently occupied by an antiques store called “Beethoven Hall” because the owner loves Beethoven’s music. He keeps a large ledger-style visitors’ book in the store that musicians are invited to sign and leave notes, and that all visitors are welcome to browse.. Some famous musicians have written interesting entries about the shop and about their musical interests in this book.