Dingman's Hall
DINGMAN'S HALL
(later Broadview Hotel)
1891
This four-storey Romanesque Revival-style building was constructed for Archibald W. Dingman,
an entrepreneur influential in Alberta's early oil-drilling industry and a principal in Pugsley, Dingman & Co.,
a Toronto-based soap manufacturer. A landmark on Queen Street East, it features a prominent corner tower
with a pyramidal roof, wide arches and rusticated stonework on the ground floor, rows of rounded-arch and
squared-head window openings, and decorative terra cotta panels. The Canadian Bank of Commerce was
originally located at street level, with offices and meeting halls on the upper floors. In 1907,
Dingman sold the building to Thomas J. Edward who converted it into the Broadview Hotel
a year later. It has since undergone several renovations and name changes.
Produced with the Riverdale Historical Society
City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties
HERITAGE TORONTO 2015
Submitted by @richardwarnica via Tweet :
It would not have killed you, Riverdale Historical Society, to acknowledge that for several decades this building was a strip club.
and @KadiKaljuste.