Old Toronto Star Building

Toronto Star Building
Toronto Star building in 1961
General information
Type	Office (Newspaper publishing)
Location	80 King West Toronto, Ontario
Completed	1929
Demolished	1972
Height
Roof	88 metres (289 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	22
Design and construction
Owner	Toronto Star
Architect	Chapman and Oxley

The Old Toronto Star Building at 80 King Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was built in 1929 by Chapman & Oxley and abandoned in 1970 when the Toronto Star newspaper moved to One Yonge Street. The Art Deco building was torn down in 1972 to make way for the First Canadian Place. It stood at 22 storeys or 88 metres tall.

The main tenant of the building was the Toronto Star. On the ground floor facing King Street housed a few retail stores and at the east end the Stoodleigh's Restaurant.

Some stonework from the demolition of the building can be found on the grounds of the Guild Inn, along with other portions of facades of lost buildings of Toronto.^[1]

See also

• Toronto Star
• One Yonge Street - the current home of the Toronto Star
• First Canadian Place - the building now located on the site of the old Star Building.
• Toronto Star Press Centre

References

1. ^ http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=141954

External links

• Toronto Star Building
• Emporis listing
• UrbanDB listing