Ford Hotel

[1] The 750-room hotel consisted of three 12-story wings connected at the rear by a perpendicular spine atop a one-story base contained the lobby, restaurants and other amenities.

It was built in 1928 and for several decades was one of the city's most prominent hotels.

The hotel was next to the Toronto Bus Terminal and provided cheap rooms for lower income travellers.

The Toronto Star called it the "rendezvous of choice for couples pursuing an illicit affair.

All buildings were designed by Rochester architect John Foster Warner (1859–1937) and all but Toronto and Buffalo locations survive today: