Broadway Methodist Tabernacle

Rapid growth in the congregation saw it seek a new home, and in 1876 a larger lot was purchased at the northeast corner of Spadina and College Street.

This building was designed by E. J. Lennox, the most prominent architect then practicing in Toronto.

The building thus had many similarities in style of the City Hall that Lennox was working on simultaneously.

The new Tabernacle opened in 1889; near to the large working-class population of west Toronto and the textile mills of Spadina, it became an important social centre.

This was especially true under the leadership of Salem Bland, one of the leading Social Gospel advocates in Canada, and who led the church from 1919 to 1923.