[1][2][3][4] The hotel was built in late 1873, the three storey Victorian building featuring a small clock on the east facade.
In 1982 Douglas Martin, of the New York Times, described the hotel′s bar as a ″cozy, mainly working-class bar″, while he reported Canadians' reaction to one of Pierre Trudeau's speeches.
[1] In the 1960s and 1970s it was a centre of the Queen Street West music scene, and saw such visitors as Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones.
[7] According to the National Post, Ernest Hemingway, who was a reporter for the Toronto Star before he became a famous writer, used to stay there.
After its purchase, Allied clad the building in scaffolding, and began repairs to the facade, which had fallen into disrepair.
The "hub" is the home and headquarters for BrainStation, Konrad Group's digital and technology training arm.