This is an old photo from the Toronto Archives of the building at Queen West and Bathurst (651).
It was a United Cigar Store, on the main floor, but according to Doug Taylor's web site (Historic Toronto) it was called the Occidental Building.
Built by none other than E.J. Lennox in 1876 for the Masons.
The mansard roof disappeared when renovations were done in 1948.
For a while it was an ugly purple coloured bar called The Big Bop.
Just recently it was renovated again bringing it back to a better looking site on Queen.
That's much better, it's hard to imagine that it is the same building.
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