The Distillery District | |
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Neighbourhood | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Ontario |
City | Toronto |
Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Official name | Gooderham and Worts Distillery National Historic Site of Canada |
Designated | 11 November 1988 |
The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, east of downtown, which contains numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. The 13 acres (5.3 ha) district comprises more than forty heritage buildings and ten streets, and is the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America.
The district was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988.[1][2]