Stone Distillery

Designed by David Roberts, Sr. the building was constructed between 1858 and 1861 using limestone shipped from nearby Kingston, Ontario and double-timber beams for a total of $150,000, the equivalent of $3,800,000 in 2015.

Each storey in the main building is separated by a course of stone, and the larger first floor and square windows seat it firmly to the ground.

The entire building is also tied together by a simple colour scheme of warm grey limestone with dark green accents on the windows, doors, and other ornamentation.

In 1869, an explosion in the fermenting cellar caused a massive fire to engulf the building, destroying the wooden interior, but leaving the stone and machinery largely undamaged.

[4] For the next ten years the distillery no longer produced alcohol, but instead served as the backdrop for hundreds of movies, such as Chicago and X-Men, in part helping to earn Toronto the name "Hollywood North".