The Toronto Athletic Club, also known as the Stewart Building, is a building located at 149 College Street

College Street

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 in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

. It was designed by E. J. Lennox

E. J. Lennox

Edward James Lennox was a Toronto-based architect who designed several of the city's most notable landmarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including Old City Hall and Casa Loma...

 and built in 1894 to support the activities of the Club. It included the first indoor pool in Toronto.

Building

The building is built in a "Richardsonian Romanesque" style favoured by Lennox. Its exterior is sandstone, a material that Lennox used in other buildings in Toronto such as the Old City Hall and the Legislative Building in Queen's Park nearby. An indoor pool was built in the basement. The building is approximately 4000 square metre in size.

History

The building was built due to the efforts of John Beverley Robinson

John Beverley Robinson

John Beverley Robinson was elected mayor of Toronto in 1856. He was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario between the years 1880–1887....

, an amateur boxer, mayor of Toronto and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. He formed the Toronto Athletic Club in 1891 and served as its president until 1895. The building is on the site of a home of Robinson's.

The building served as the Toronto Athletic Club until 1931, Toronto Police Headquarters from 1931 to 1957, as a second campus of the Ontario College of Art & Design from 1979 to 1997, the home of the Collège des Grands-Lacs from 1999 to 2001, and since 2008 serves as the home of the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

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External links

• Toronto Athletic Club Building at Lost River Walks
• Toronto Athletic Club at Canadian Architecture