Monday, January 16, 2006

Trader's Bank Building

To Yonge street in Toronto to photograph the Trader's Bank Building at #67 on the corner of Colborne Street. At fifteen storeys, the building designed by Carrère & Hastings was the tallest commercial building in the British Empire when built in 1905-6. [Source: Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History. Wm. Dendy & Wm. Kilbourn. Oxford University Press. 1986.]

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