Empress Hotel (Toronto)

Empress Hotel
335 Yonge Street in 1979
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Former namesEdison Hotel
General information
StatusDemolished
Address335 Yonge Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates43°39′27″N 79°22′52″W / 43.6574°N 79.3810°W / 43.6574; -79.3810
Opened1888
Demolished2011

The Empress Hotel was a three-storey red-brick building at the corner of Yonge and Gould streets in downtown Toronto. It was destroyed by fire on January 3, 2011.[1] The hotel was opened in 1888.[2] The hotel changed hands several times.[3] The property ceased operating as a hotel in the mid-1970s.

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