- City of Toronto Archives
- Vik Pahwa fonds
- Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre
Where
- Held by
- City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
- Creator
- Vik Pahwa
- Dates
- April 4, 2016 (indexed as 2016)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 photograph : col., TIFF ; 40.7 MB
- Scope & content
- Item consists of a frontal view of the Berkeley St. facade of the Canadian Opera Company's Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre. Located at 227 Front St. E. at the south-west corner of Front and Berkeley streets, the facility houses a 450-seat theatre as well as spaces for rehearsal, receptions, and workshops.Designed by architects Strictland and Symens and completed in 1887-1888, the building originally served as a manufacturing plant for the Consumer's Gas Co. and was known as Purifying House No. 2. It was decommissioned in 1954 and acquired by the Opera Company in 1985.
- Location
- 227 Front St E · address · confidence 75% · address:exact · found as “227 Front St. E.”
- Front St & Berkeley St · intersection · confidence 65% · intersection · found as “corner of Front and Berkeley streets, the facility houses a 450-seat theatre as”
- Berkeley St · street · confidence 35% · street · found as “Berkeley St.”
- Subjects
- Consumers' Gas; Canadian Opera Company; Front St E (Toronto, Ont.); Berkeley St (Toronto, Ont.); INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; REDEVELOPMENT; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; THEATRES; WINTER; SNOW
- Genre / form
- Photographs - electronic
- Access & use
- Copyright is not held by the City of Toronto...Learn more about Copyright Details OPEN - No restrictions on these non-government records.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-21T01:36:11Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto
Digital objects at the source
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